CHAPTER I EARLY YEARS To the westward of the great chalk uplands of central Dorset, an amphitheatre of hills lies facing the sea. From Abbotsbury it sweeps northward, past the ancient British camp on Eggardon and the pleasant fields above Beaminster; thence southward, crowned by another series of entrenchments, till it ends in the cliffs round Lyme Regis and Charmouth. About the middle of the semicircle, the highest ground in Dorset rises in the twin hills of Lewesdon and Pilsdon, whose characteristic shapes serve as landmarks to sailors far out at sea. From the top of Lewesdon the country below is seen spread out as on a map. Southward runs the valley of the Brit, a land of smiling villages and ancient manor-houses, of spacious farmsteads and stone-built cottages. Westward lies a flatter tract of grass land, Marshwood Vale, where the cold heavy clay of the lias becomes in winter an expanse of swamp, in spring a . carpet of wild-flowers. At the end of each valley, aTable of Contents...

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