This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1847 Excerpt: ...clay, from whose rich and well-wooded valleys they frequently rise in abrupt hills and steep slopes, they often command views of much beauty and considerable extent, and in striking contrast with their own uncultivated and open but fresh and healthful tracts. Of this the rich and varied prospects from St. George's Hill ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1847 Excerpt: ...clay, from whose rich and well-wooded valleys they frequently rise in abrupt hills and steep slopes, they often command views of much beauty and considerable extent, and in striking contrast with their own uncultivated and open but fresh and healthful tracts. Of this the rich and varied prospects from St. George's Hill near Weybridge, St. Anne's Hill and White Hill near Chertsey, Cooper's Hill near Egham, Hungary Hill near Farnham, and Farley Hill near Swallowfield, are well-known examples. Nor are the Bagshot sands them Trans. Geol. Soc. 2nd Series, vol. i. t Casts of Crassatella, a Pecten, and what appears to have been a Trochus (Trans. Geol. Soc. 2nd Series, vol. i. p. 51). X Indistinct traces of vegetable remains have also been noticed in some of the blocks of concretionary sandstones. With the exception of a few occasional specimens, rarely collected, I am not aware of the existence of any regular collection of the " Bagshot-sand" fossils, even of a local nature. I shall be glad to be informed of any. The general average height above the level of the sea of the " massif" of the Bagshot sands varies from 100 to 200 feet. From above this general level the ranges of hills which constitute so large a portion of the area of these sands, rise from 150 to 200 feet. St. Anne's Hill is 240 feet high, Goldsworthy Hill 185 feet j Farnborough station 200, Winchfield station 250, and Bagshot Heath 463. In the section No. 2 the heights are taken from the railway levels. For the heights of many places in this and the adjacent districts see Dr. Fitton's useful list (Geol. Trans. 2nd Series, vol. iv. p. 369). selves always barren and bare. In many parts of the lower Bagshot sands more particularly, some of the most pleasing scenery in the nei...
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