nearer than Romping Downs, about
two miles distant. The principal feature
is the beautiful chalk ridge called the
Hog’s Back, which is scarcely exceeds half
a mile in breadth. “This remarkable ridge
ridge of the North Downs extends from Guildford
to a point about two miles from Farnham
and has evidently been produced by an up-
throw of the chalk and the breaking off of
the southern portion of the curve. The inclined
position of the remaining side of the flexure
is seen at the western extremity of a large
chalk-pit, between Guildford and Puttenham,
where the strata dip the north at
an angle of 30°. The upper beds are
very white, with courses of the usual
dark flint nodules; and a remarkable
feature in this quarry is the distinctness
with which the chalk is divided into
masses approaching to a rhomboidal
figure, by seams oblique to the strati
fication; the angles of the portion thus
formed standing out in the face of
the cliff, like splinters in the shattered
fracture of a crystal.”
Descending its southern side we
meet with a narrow stratum of fire-stone,
which “forms a slight projection along the
foot of the Hog’s Back; the galt, a corres
corresponding depression along its whole length,”
varying in breadth from a few hundred yards
yards to a quarter of a mile, towards the
eastward, opposite Littleton. Having
passed this tract, we approach the
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