Arthur Young on the view from Langdon Hills.
'One of the most astonishing prospects to be beheld breaks out almost at once upon leaving one of the dark lanes. Such a prodigious valley, everywhere painted with the finest verdure, and intersected with numerous hedges and woods, appears beneath you, that it is past description;
the Thames winding through it, full of ships and bounded by the hills of Kent. Nothing can exceed it except that which Hannibal exhibited to his disconsolate troops, when he bade them behold the glories of the Italian plains!
If ever a turnpike road should lead through the country, I beg you will go and view this enchanting scene, though a journey of forty miles be necessary to view it. I never beheld anything like it in the rest of England'
They don't write them like that anymore!
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