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    IN' THE WEALD OF SUSSEX. 243

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    It -Was At The Season Wlien Hundreds And...

    which lies at the foot of the South Downs , about _& ve miles north of Arundel _& ve miles south of Petworth , and four west of Parham .

    Parham , where stands that fine Elizabethan house , the seat of one of the oldest , of our nobility , and in which more curious things are to outofthelace

    be lace But seen and Bi than gnor certainl — is I generall confess should y that known never I had , for have never it is thoug so an much ht - of - as lookin heard -way g of p for the a . y

    Homan p , villa in the Weald of _Siissex . It was a beautiful July morning from , Little and that I mi ton ght with have a lad long whom day

    before meI started betimes Hampa I had hill engaged , to hill drive is me not as Mont far as Blanc the Duke and if ' s it lod were ge on , I the am top not of a Bury

    member Bury of . the Alpine Club ; and thoug , h I do not mind a walk of ground eighteen , and or twent not all y miles up hill on , a at fine an summer angle of ' s something day , it must like be _& on ve and fair

    fort me y thus degrees far for and Hve resolve or six d miles to perform together the . rest So I of got my a boy journey to drive to

    Bignor I am , and not , to a good return hand at ni at ght describing , on foot . fine views , so I had better

    the not top attempt of it , but hill will had merel on y me mention Smooth the effect short the grass pro covers spect from the

    downs for miles Bury together , and beyond . that it seemed to me as if a of the southern countiescolored and as large as life , was

    map and spread dales out woods far below and my streams feet ; , for and I fields could of see all villages sizes , , shapes roads , hills and

    _colors and many ; some , wherein bright the green golden pasture , grain , others was yellowish almost - read brown y fallows for the ,

    sickle But . I had my way to makeand was impatient to get on , so much

    so indeedthat as I descended , the steep grassy and _slipj ) ery sides had of the I hill been , I some was sorel twent y tempted ars to lie down I and probabl roll y to should the bottom have ;

    y yeyounger , perhaps done so , but also I I felt was that too I fat was —but too personal old for till this observations at kind th of locomotion reached are my the ab — -

    horrence . I walked steadily forward , lengI turnp Now ike I ro should ad which not have runs mentioned from Chichester this so to particularl London . y were it only

    ro a ad common —sometimes turnpike bearing road ; the but name if you of Stone please Street to Stone recollect , then Street for that ten or this a

    dozen miles called Roman Roadand then again —was made by those famous old Romans , some seventeen monument or ei amongst ghteen

    m hundred any of years their ago persevering , and that industry it still exists and , wisdom one , I think you will agree with me that it is rather more interesting than a mere

    modern Macadam . Bignor lies about a mile to the west of this road , as I the learned afc

    the are indebted toll-gate , at not which to the R stopped omans , to but inquire to the my wisdom way . of the y lawg by ive , we rs

    In' The Weald Of Sussex. 243

    IN' THE WEALD OF SUSSEX . 243

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1860, page 243, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121860/page/27/