. The highlands of south-west Surrey; a geographical study in sand and clay . flowing at first eastward,with a sudden abrupt turn bends to the the Wey and the Blackwater here formwhat is called an elbow of capture. The two rivers are separated by about twomiles of distance and by a low rise in the soil between is largely alluvial. It seemsvery certain that here we have a case of north-easterly direction was probably theoriginal course of the river, which formed thehead-waters of the Blackwater, a very much largerriver than it is at present. If so, the Bramsho
. The highlands of south-west Surrey; a geographical study in sand and clay . flowing at first eastward,with a sudden abrupt turn bends to the the Wey and the Blackwater here formwhat is called an elbow of capture. The two rivers are separated by about twomiles of distance and by a low rise in the soil between is largely alluvial. It seemsvery certain that here we have a case of north-easterly direction was probably theoriginal course of the river, which formed thehead-waters of the Blackwater, a very much largerriver than it is at present. If so, the Bramshott branch would havereally been the main stream. The south-easternpart of the river from Farnham to Tilford wasprobably at first a tributary of the Wey, which, 42 THE HIGHLANDS OF SOUTH-WEST SURREY working backward, at length tapped the watersof the northern river, which henceforth flowed onwith the loss of the whole of its upper stream. The other rivers of the region call for slightcomment. The most important is the Rother,a large tributary of the Arun. As the Wey crosses. -Oeaert-ed bed of 61ackwater ~30o~~vContour line of 300 feet PROBABLE DECAPITATION OF THE BLACKWATER. the region on the north, so does the Rotheroccupy a similar position on the south, flowingwith a sharply zigzagged course. It rises a littlesouth of Selborne, and for some little distancekeeps its southerly direction, but farther on turnseastward, and continues so until it meets the THE RAINFALL OF SOUTH-WEST SURREY 43 Arun. Its largest tributary stream is receivedfrom Hampshire, but it is also fed from theslopes and valleys of Blackdown, though most ofthese small streams are less than those thatHindhead sends to the Wey. One stream, how-ever, that takes its rise near Haslemere, is largerthan any of the others flowing from the centraldivide, with the exception of the head-waters ofthe Bramshott Wey. This is the Anstead Brook,the course of which lies to the east, in the directionof Chiddingfold, and which fin
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