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Title: The earth and its inhabitants ..
Year: 1882 (1880s)
Authors: Reclus, Elisée, 1830-1905 Ravenstein, Ernest George, 1834-1913 Keane, Augustus Henry, 1833-1912
Subjects: Geography
Publisher: New York : D. Appleton and Company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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theReformatory 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. Eicell, 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 VIII. SUEREY. 201 All the other towns and villages of Surrey are hardly more than suburbs ofthe great metropolis. Foremost amongst them in population is Croydon, anancient town, with the ruins of a palace of the Archbishop of Canterbury (whonow usually resides in the neighbouring Addiugton Park), an ancient grammarschool, and an old church recently restored. The Wandle, which flows past Croydon, Fig. 101.—Guildford and Godalming.Scale 1 : 63,000.
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IMJle. affords some good fishing, and in its lower course sets in motion the wheels of thepaper and rice mills of Wanchworth, a south-western suburb of London. Othersuburbs are Noncood, Mitcham, Tooting, and Wimbledon, on the edge of an opengorse-covered heath, upon which the National Rifle Association holds its annualgatherings. Amongst the towns and villages seated on the banks of the Thames, 202 THE BEITISH ISLES. those of Putney, Kew, Richmond, and Kingston (with Surbiton) are of world-widerenown. The park near Richmond 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 Molesey, Walton, Weijhridge, Chertsey, and Egham. Kent, a maritime county, stretching from the Lower Thames to the EnglishChannel, is of varied aspect, and the beauty of its scenery, joined to the varietyand nature of its productions, fairly entitles it to the epithet of The Garden ofEngland, aspired to by several

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