. My garden, its plan and culture together with a general description of its geology, botany, and natural history. Gardening. AfV GARDEN. The drift bed, extending from Croydon to my garden, shows that at a former period of the earth's history a great volume of water passed down the Wandle; and Mr. Tylor supposes there was a pluvial period when not less than 300 inches of rain fell per annum, which washed the flints from the chalk and carried them down the ancient river to form this bed, which is a mile wide at Beddington Park. The Wandle, taken as a whole, is the perfection of a river; its wat
. My garden, its plan and culture together with a general description of its geology, botany, and natural history. Gardening. AfV GARDEN. The drift bed, extending from Croydon to my garden, shows that at a former period of the earth's history a great volume of water passed down the Wandle; and Mr. Tylor supposes there was a pluvial period when not less than 300 inches of rain fell per annum, which washed the flints from the chalk and carried them down the ancient river to form this bed, which is a mile wide at Beddington Park. The Wandle, taken as a whole, is the perfection of a river; its water is as bright as crystal, and is purity itself. It does not overflow with rain, nor is it deficient in dry weather. It does not freeze in winter, nor does it become very hot in summer. It has existed through all historic times; and as long as the chalk retains its porosity, and is pro- tected by a bed of clay underneath and a bed of blue clay on that portion of its upper surface which is most depressed, and as long as rain falls upon the more elevated portion, so long will the water continue to ooze from the earth by day and by night, by summer and by winter, and to run its course as the River Wandle, and it may thus exclaim in the words of the poet— " Men may come and men may go; but I go on for ever.'' yirn. F//.—Interior of Beddington Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Smee, Alfred, 1818-1877. London, Bell and Daldy
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