Highways and byways in Surrey . h the ballwould lie after an absolutely perpendicular drop—to theextreme danger of those disinterested in the experiment. Butthe hill is not really steep enough. The contours crowd onthe map, but they show that you would have to drive nearly aquarter of a mile. At a distance, in spring and summer, the trees which markBox Hill are not box or juniper, but the whitebeams thatpatch the deeper green of the oaks and beeches with glaucous A SOLDIERS WHIM 307 grey. The box-trees, though their thick, snaky stems look asif they might be any age, are not all of them old. T
Highways and byways in Surrey . h the ballwould lie after an absolutely perpendicular drop—to theextreme danger of those disinterested in the experiment. Butthe hill is not really steep enough. The contours crowd onthe map, but they show that you would have to drive nearly aquarter of a mile. At a distance, in spring and summer, the trees which markBox Hill are not box or juniper, but the whitebeams thatpatch the deeper green of the oaks and beeches with glaucous A SOLDIERS WHIM 307 grey. The box-trees, though their thick, snaky stems look asif they might be any age, are not all of them old. The treeshave more than once been cut and*sold. Sir Henry Mildmayput them up for auction for ^^i2,000 in 1795 ^^ apparentlysold them for ;;^io,ooo two years later, with twelve years tocut the wood in. In later days, the wisdom of a War Officecleared a wide space of trees and built a fort there ; the wisdomof another War Office abandoned the fort as useless. Thereit remains, behind spiked railings, the idlest monument of
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