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Title: The wanderings of a pen and pencil
Year: 1846 (1840s)
Authors: Palmer, F. P. (Francis Paul) Crowquill, Alfred, ill Bissett, Clark Prescott, 1875-1932, former owner. UPB
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Publisher: London : Jeremiah How
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
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A modern Diogenes. THE WHITE HORSE. 263 The next morning, contrary to our discipline, we tarried rather longer in dormitory, to bathe the stiffness from our wearied limbs in luxurious repose; but work was to be accomplished, and before noon we had crossed the Ickleton way (the ancient road), and commenced the ascent of the precipitous chalk hill, upon the summit of which is the very perfect Roman camp, called Uffingdon Castle. This is four-sided as regards the boundary, measuring 700 feet from E. to W.; 500 feet from N. to S. It is surrounded with a high vallum, and a slighter one on the inside. The views from the inner vallum are very extensive. The celebrated figure of the White Horse is upon the north-western face of the hill, and covers upwards of an acre of ground. It is formed by cutting the turf away from the chalk to the depth
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wU-3- The White Horse Hill. of two or three feet, and a bequest enables the village is to cleanse the intruding herbage from the figure annually. It can be seen in favourable weather to the distance of twelve miles. A deep hollowing of the hillside beneath the figure is called the Manger; and a conical hill, a part connected on the north to the main eminence by a horn of this semicircular 264 WANDERINGS OF A PEN AND PENCIL. sweep, is called Dragon Hill. In the addenda to The Britannia we read of this camp of Uffingdon as very large; and at about two furlongs distance is a barrow called Dragon Hill; but whether from hence one should take this to be the tumulus of Uther Pendragon, since the conjecture is not warranted by any direct testimony from history, I leave to others to deter-mine. As also whether the White Horse on the hill-side was made by Hengist, &c. The whole of this vicinity has been a favourite questing ground for the learned; as the Britons, the Saxons, and the Dane*;, are in t

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