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The Sussex landscape began tolook uncomfortably like the England described in the old ballad:This land is 6th, 1816. Oh! But we are still in London, Stephen. He was tall; he was charming;he had a most ironical smile; and, unlike Mr Norrell, he talked a great dealabout magic and had no objection to answering any body's questions on thesubject.

After they had been riding for three hours they saw a line ofmountains rising up from the plain like a wall. ot been attempted since1302 - or that the spell had been lost - or that it had never existed in the firstplace. had cast off its eagle-like aspectsand settled itself into a shape altogether more English: it had become a raven. This time he found himself delivering an exact account of JuliusCaesar's dealings and experiences in Britain.