Excerpt from The Chiltern Hundreds We probably only associate the name of the Chilterns With high chalk-downs, and deep coombes dotted With ancient box-trees; With smiling valleys Whose sides are clothed With beech-woods, and With breezy uplands, from Which we look down on the rich plains of the Thames and the Coln. But the Chilterns give a name also to other portions of the fair county of Buckingham besides those parts Which are actually covered by the rolling downs them selves, for the three Hundreds With Which we are concerned Spread not only over the hills after Which they are call ed, but over the low lying plains at their feet as well. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.