“ Looking the other way, the huge expanse of land gave them a sensation which is given by no view, nonetheless extended, in England; the villages and the hills there having names, and the farthest horizon of hills as usually as not dipping and displaying a line of mist which is the sea; here the view was one in all infinite solar-dried earth, earth pointed in pinnacles, heaped in huge obstacles, earth widening and spreading away and away just like the immense ground of the sea, earth chequered by day and by night time, and partitioned into completely different lands, where famous cities were founded, and the races of males modified from dark savages to white civilised men, and again to dark savages once more. ”