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in extent, perhaps, than that of all the chalk hills of the kingdom united.

The APPEARANCE of a country, di- versified in surface, and amply wooded, as are the hills under view, cannot fail to in- terest: especially, where the vallies are cleared, and the hills remain capped with woods, which bend over their brows, and fall with irregular outlines down the sides of the vallies: passages of beautiful scenery, which not unfrequently meet the eye, in crossing the more secluded parts of the hills of Surrey.

The pisTANT views, which are com- manded from this range of hills, are various, and extensive. Those from the Boxley and Detling hills, in Kent, have been noticed. The hills of Surrey afford, among many others, one remarkable point of view;—San- derstead hill, near Croydon: from whence is commanded the upper and principal part of the wide Vale of London; closing with the well featured grounds of Windsor; whose castle rises, boldly, and distinctly, to the eye,—though placed at near thirty miles distance.