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Down the Aalley
河谷寻幽
William Cobbet/威廉·科贝特
I came off this morning on the Marlborough road about two miles,or three,and then turned off,over the downs,in a northwesterly direction,in search of the source of the Avon river,which goes down to Salisbury.I had once been at Netheravon,a village in this valley,but I had often heard this valley described as one of the finest pieces of land in all England;I knew that there were about thirty parish churches,standing in a length of about thirty miles,and in an average width of hardly a mile;and I was resolved to see a little into the reasons that could have induced our fathers to build all these churches,especially if,as the Scotch would have us believe,there were but a mere handful of people in England until of late years.
我大清早就出了门,在马尔博罗公路上走了两三英里,然后拐向西北,翻过一处高地去寻找阿文河的源头,这条河流向索尔兹博。我曾经在河谷中一个叫作下阿文的村庄里住过一些日子,然而不止一次听说,这条河算得上是整个英国的胜地中的其中一个。那谷地不过三十公里长一英里宽,可上面竟然耸立着大约三十座教区教堂。我决定去探讨一番,究竟是什么原因驱使我们的先人们建造了这么多的教堂,更何况直到最近几年以前英格兰的人口还非常少——苏格兰人一直力求让我们相信这一点。
In steering across the down,I came to a large farm,which a shepherd told me was Milton Hill Farm.This was upon the high land,and before I came to the edge of this Valley of Avon,which was my land of promise,or at least,of great expectation;for I could not imagine that thirty churches had been built for nothing by the side of a brook(for it is no more during the greater part of the way)thirty miles long.The shepherd showed me the way towards Milton;and at the end of about a mile,from the top of a very high part of the down,with a steep slope towards the valley,I first saw this Valley of Avon;and a most beautiful sight it was!Villages,hamlets,large farms,towers,steeples,fields,meadows,orchards,and very fine timber trees,scattered all over the valley.The shape of the thing is this:on each side downs,very lofty and steep in some places,and sloping miles back in other places;but each outside of the valley are downs.From the edge of the downs begin capital arable fields generally of very great dimensions ,and,in some places,runn... -->>
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