Note 152 — WINDSOR FOREST.
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Milton's Vacation Exercise:
Or sullen Mole, that runneth underneath.—Wakefield.
The Mole at particular spots, called the swallows, sinks through crevices in the chalk, and during dry seasons, when there is not sufficient water to till both the subterranean and the upper channel, the bed of the river is laid bare in parts of its course. The stream sometimes entirely disappears from Burford-bridge to the neighbourhood of Thorncroft-bridge, a distance of nearly three miles.