Chapter 12 HERTFORDSHIRE CORNFIELDS

A gaily chequered, heart-expanding view,

Far as the circling eye can shoot around,

Unbounded tossing in a flood of corn.

Thomson.

That part of Hertfordshire where the Chiltern Hills, after curving proudly round from Tring to Dunstable, and almost rivalling the South Downs in shapeliness, die away at their north-east extremity, over Hitc