amid the hills. On the left, the escarpment of the west end hill presents itself, in which a number of terraces, such as are formed by the action of water on the shore of a lake or sea may be seen, of which the following engraving will give some idea. These terraces indicate not only the action of water, but its retirement at successive epochs, either from the upheaving of the land by igneous causes, or by the evacuation of the waters at some equally regular intervals. What wonders does geology unfold! where the valley that we are crossing now exists, there once rolled the sweeping waters of a lake or sea, the surges of which were employed in excavating those terraces, which now, after the land has for indefinable ages been raised from the watery womb, bears testimony of the most unequivocal character of the origin from which it has sprung-of the combination of circumstances by which it was produced. At the end of the embankment we enter a cutting through a hillock of clay, and passing CHEDDINGTON CHURCH, which is close on the left, dash beneath the bridge which is hard by, and are again upon an embankment, from which EDDLESBOROUGH CHURCH may be observed to the right, standing on a slight ascent under the hills; and on the left we come to where the Aylesbury Junction Railway is intended to join the line. AYLESBURY is a borough, market, and county town in Buckinghamshire, and contains about 5000 inhabitants; it is situated in an extensive and delightful valley, extending from Thame in Oxfordshire, to Leighton in Bedfordshire. The only manufacture is that of bone lace, which has latterly much decreased: rabbits and ducks are bred in great quantities for the London markets. There are three Newspapers published here-two Whig and one Tory. We are now close to the village of HORTON,which is on the right side, just under the line, amidst gardens, orchards, and rich pasturage: after which the railway is formed in a cutting through blue clay; and then we come on an embankment, by the side of which may be seen some pits, from which have been taken the material for making the embankment; after this, we pass through a small cutting, and then find ourselves again upon an embankment, from which another view of the delightful vale of Aylesbury is obtained, with the tall spire of LEIGHTON BUZZARD rising from amidst the trees to the right of the line. We presently cross a small bridge over a streamlet, and then the charms of the scene become more exquisite: the canal runs near the line, with its white rails and white lock-house; the beautiful verdure of the valley; the busy wind-mills on the neighbouring summits; the bleak chalk hills are in the distance on the south and south-east; and on the west the landscape is made up of luxuriant fields and groves; but in human affairs |