3-034-627 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Autumn Campaign: encampment of the 3rd Division at Frensham Common - "Devil's Jumps", 1871. 'Frensham-common is remarkable for two or three large ponds of water, one three miles in circuit...The hill of Hind Head - rising to a height of 923 ft.,...[is] a conspicuous feature in all views of this part of the country. There is a deep hollow in the side of the hill, called the Devil's Punchbowl, round which the old Portsmouth road passes, and many wild stories are told of this place. Haslemere, and Mr. Tennyson's mansion at Black Down, are on the eastern or Surrey side of Hind Head. On the Frensham side of Hind Head are three very curious mounds of sand, vulgarly named "The Devil's Jumps," one of which appears in the foreground of our Engraving, with a distant view of the third division encampment. For the sketch from which this Engraving was drawn we are obliged to Lieutenant S. P. Oliver, R.A. The house at the left-hand side is that of Mr. Carrington, the astronomer, whose wife was the victim of a murderous attack lately reported in the weekly chronicle of crimes and offences. Mr. Carrington's observatory is the building on the top of the neighbouring hillock'. From "Illustrated London News", 1871.