DOWNS, THE NORTH AND SOUTH

DOWNS, THE NORTH AND SOUTH
   two parallel ranges of low broad hills covered with a light soil and with a valley between, called the Weald, that extend eastward from Hampshire to the sea-coast, the North terminating in Dover cliffs, Kent, and the South in Beachy Head, Sussex; the South famous for the breed of sheep that pastures on them.

The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. . 1907.

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