![]() Through this country we proceeded to Godalming, an old and very ill paved town, much less clean and well built than Guildford, but apparently of the same date, that is to say, the best houses built about the reign of Charles II, the others about that of Queen Elizabeth. We left the vale of Albury, and the beautiful hills which almost close the mouth of it, to the westward, and pursued our course between a low rather tame range of hills on the right, and a series of higher and more abrupt insulated hills covered with oak copse on the side next us, and prettily feathered at the top. After passing through the cheerful old town of Guildford, and crossing the Wey, we turned to the left, and entered into the valley which extends from that place to Godalming. 2 Towards Guildford however the distant country to the right becomes less monotonous, and a long ridge of high hills presents itself in front, which must extend from Farnham to Bagshot or beyond. I have since discovered that it does lie just beyond Cobham-and is called St. To the right, although we had the advantage of a clear horizon and a blue sky chequered with flying white clouds, by far the best weather for surveying the country, we could perceive nothing remarkable for the first eight miles except a black ridge of high land which must lie near Cobham, 1 but of which, although I have often observed it from Ranmer common, I do not know the name. The road skirts the foot of the Ranmer hills, of which however the ascent on the north is so gradual that little is visible of their peculiarities except an occasional chalk pit. I was taken up at Leatherhead by a Chichester coach which proceeded through Bookham, Effingham, East Horsley, Clandon and Merrow. This morning I commenced a short tour of the Sussex coast in company with Graham and Grant. As not published in Mill’s lifetime, not listed in his bibliography. Grant was also a colleague of Mill’s in the Examiner’s Office of the East India Company, 1826-45. Mill’s companions on this trip were George John Graham (1801-88) and Horace Grant (1800-59), both close associates of his in the late 1820s, collaborating in his study and debating groups, and accompanying him on walks through London as well as in the countryside. Hampshire, West Sussex, and the Isle of Wight 558.Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, and Surrey 476 Edition: current Page:.IV) Letter from Lady Bentham to James Mill 682.I) Plan of a Dialogue on Government 679.Journal and Notebook: Ancillary Materials (1820-21) ![]() Walking Tour of Cornwall (3-9 Oct., 1832) 613 Walking Tour of Hampshire, West Sussex, and the Isle of Wight (19 July-6 Aug., 1832) 557 Walking Tour of Yorkshire and the Lake District (July-Aug. Walking Tour of Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, and Surrey (3-15 July, 1828) 477
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