The earth and its inhabitants (1881) (14597597680)

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Title: The earth and its inhabitants ..

Year: 1881 (1880s)

Authors: Reclus, Elisée, 1830-1905 Ravenstein, Ernest George, 1834-1913 Keane, A. H. (Augustus Henry), 1833-1912

Subjects: Geography

Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and company

Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library

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Reformatory of the Philanthropic Society. Fullers earth is dug in the neigh-bourhood. Epsom, in a depression on the northern slopes of the Downs, was a resort offashion in the seventeenth century, when its medicinal springs attracted numerousvisitors. The famous racecourse lies on the Downs to the south of the town, andnot less than 100,000 persons have assembled on it on Derby Day. EiceU, asmall village near Epsom, has powder-mills. Near it is Nonsuch Park, with acastellated mansion, close to the site of an ancient palace of King Henry YIII. SUEEEY. 201 All the other towns and villages of Surrey are hardlj^ more than suburbs ofthe great metropolis. Foremost amongst them in population is Croijclon, anancient town, with the ruins of a palace of the Archbishop of Canterbury (whonow usually resides in the neighbouring Addington Park), an ancient grammarschool, and an old church recently restored. The Wandle, which flows past Croydon, Fit;. 101.—Guildford and Godalming.Scale 1 : 03,000.

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IMilo. affords some good fishing, and in its lower course sets in motion the wheels of thepaper and rice mills of Wandsirort/i, a south-western suburb of London. Othersuburbs are JYoncood, Mitcltam, Tooting, and Whnhledon, on the edge of an opengorse-covered heath, upon which the National Rifle Ascociation holds its annualgatherings. Amongst the towns and villages seated on the banks of the Thames, 202 THE BRITISH ISLES. those of Pntnoij, Keic, liichmond, and Jungnfon (with Surbiton) arc of world-widerenown. The park near Riclnnond is nearly 9 miles in circumference, its sylvanscenery is of extreme beauty, and many fine distant views are commanded from it.Higher up on the Thames are Molcsei/, IFalfon, Weyhridrje, Chcrtscy, and E(jhnm. Kent, a maritime county, stretching from the Lower Thames to the EnglishChannel, is of varied aspect, and tlie beauty of its scenery, joined to the varietyand nature of its productions, fairly entitles it to the epithet of The Garden ofEngland, aspired t

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