. The earth and its inhabitants .. . Is JO. zcs V^ SPITHE. AD f bu^s;^W ^ i i^ ie 9 sheep highly appreciated for their mutton. Now these downs only present us withscenes of rural peace, but, to judge from the fortifications which crown nearly everypoint of vantage, there must have been a time when the country was the scene ofalmost incessant wars. The most famous of these entrenchments is the Poor MansDyke, on a commanding height to the north of Brighton, which in a more super-stitious age was looked upon as a work of the devil. The South and North Downs enclose between them the triangular Wea
. The earth and its inhabitants .. . Is JO. zcs V^ SPITHE. AD f bu^s;^W ^ i i^ ie 9 sheep highly appreciated for their mutton. Now these downs only present us withscenes of rural peace, but, to judge from the fortifications which crown nearly everypoint of vantage, there must have been a time when the country was the scene ofalmost incessant wars. The most famous of these entrenchments is the Poor MansDyke, on a commanding height to the north of Brighton, which in a more super-stitious age was looked upon as a work of the devil. The South and North Downs enclose between them the triangular Weald valley. THE CHANNEL SLOPE. 129 upon whose denuded surface are exposed rocks of more ancient date than the chalkof the surrounding- downs. When the Normans invaded England, the Forest, orWeald, of Andred, or Andredes, still covered the whole of this region, but the treeshave been cut down and converted into charcoal, and consumed in the smelting fur-naces erected near iron pits which have long since been abandoned as cla
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