 | Geological Society of London - 1836 - 744 Seiten
...unpicturesque, is wild and barren in its aspect, destitute of wood, producing only ferns, heath, and furze. The surface is in fact, to this hour, nearly such...when first uncovered by the departure of the sea; and its structure is just what may be imagined to result from the levelling effect of water under the... | |
 | Edward Wedlake Brayley - 1841 - 566 Seiten
...unpicturesque, is wild and barren in its aspect, destitute of wood, and producing only ferns, heaths, and furze. The surface is in fact, to this hour, nearly such...been when first uncovered by the departure of the sea : and its structure is just what may be imagined to result from the levelling effect of water under... | |
 | Edward Newman - 1849 - 188 Seiten
...which the summit and chapel of St. Martha's are distinctly seen." — ' History of Surrey,' v. 1 34. From other points the views are equally extensive,...from various sources, amongst which is one that is rendered classical by the delightful author of Selborne. This, meeting the Blackdown stream at Headley,... | |
 | John Drew Salmon - 1852 - 34 Seiten
...the Devil's Jumps. The scenery in this neighbourhood is wild, and the soil barren in the extreme ; the surface is, in fact, to this hour, nearly such...first uncovered by the departure of the sea. The whole division is intersected with delightful valleys. There are some extensive ponds in this division, the... | |
 | John Murray (Firm), Richard John King - 1876 - 568 Seiten
...unpicturesque, is wild and barren in its aspect, destitute of wood, and producing only ferns, heaths, and furze. The surface is, in fact, to this hour, nearly such...conceived to have been when first uncovered by the sea; and its structure is just what may be imagined to result from tho Route 15. — Woking to Haslemere.... | |
 | John Murray (Firm), Richard John King - 1876 - 566 Seiten
...wood, and producing only ferns, heaths, and furze. The surface is, in fact, to this hour, nearly sucli as it may be conceived to have been when first uncovered by the sea ; and its structure is just what may be imagined to result from the Route 15. — Waking to Haslemere.... | |
 | George Nelson Godwin - 1882 - 246 Seiten
...Head Hill is 923 feet above the sea level, and the eminent geologist, Dr. Filton, thus describes it, ' The surface is, in fact, to this hour, nearly such...been when first uncovered by the departure of the sea ; and its structure is just what may be imagined to result from the levelling effect of water under... | |
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The whole of the tract here occupied by the sands, though not unpicturesque, is wild and barren in its aspect, destitute of wood, and producing only ferns, heaths, and furze. The surface is in fact, to this hour, nearly such as it may be conceived to... 