The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain Page #3
stretches are steeper than they look.
- Yeah.
your pedometer reading...
will be much use.
Uh, well, not much,
but, uh, nevertheless--
So, can you see either
of our checkpoints from here ?
Uh,
n-no.
But l can see
those two men again.
Rather ominous. Reminds me
of surveying Abyssinia in `88.
- [ Men Chattering ]
- [ Morgan ] Come on, boys.
Any more bets ?
This may be your last chance.
[ Man ] 2,300.
2,300.
For Williams the Petroleum.
Good man, good man.
Right, Anson.
Oh, uh, well,
same as you,
l imagine.
Mmm, yes.
More or less.
Good.
The very men we need.
Mr. Garrad, sir.
Settle our bet.
How high is our mountain ?
l`m sorry.
l can`t say yet.
We`ve only just done
the first recce.
You must have some idea.
Well, nothing accurate
as yet, l`m afraid.
- Good night.
- Night.
- [ Men Murmuring ]
Uh, look.
l may be wrong, but after 25 years
of doing this sort of thing, l doubt it.
Gentlemen.
- 930 ?
- 930 ?
[ Dog Barking ]
- [ Knocking ]
- Come in.
- Mr. Anson !
- Oh, Mr. Morgan.
Yes. Perhaps you can help.
Do you know, um, who those two gentlemen
down there in the street are ?
They`ve been
following us all day.
and Thomas Twp Too. Local farmers.
They`re not quite
with it-- touched.
- Oh.
- Stupid. Twp.
That`s Thomas Twp on the left
and his brother, Thomas Twp.
- Sorry ?
- Oh, he`s Thomas Twp Too.
- He is.
- Or is it the other way round ?
W-Well, whichever. Tha-That`s fine.
lt was just they were, um--
-We were beginning to get a bit worried.
-Oh, quite harmless.
Now l think
l can safely say...
of my patrons-- villagers to a man--
when l say l feel--
we feel--
that your Mr. Garrad`s done a pretty
shoddy job measuring Ffynnon Garw,
which is, to any trained eye,
a mountain.
- Beg your pardon ?
- Oh. Accepted.
No, no, no, no. l mean-- Sorry.
l-l`m not quite following what you--
930 feet, man ?
l hope he doesn`t intend sticking to
this obviously euphonious measurement.
No, th-th-the thing is,
Mr. Morgan, we haven`t really
measured, um, your mountain yet.
We`ve merely made a preliminary
reconnoitre, which has yielded
a very approximate figure.
[ All ] Click, click,
click, click, click.
- All the way to the top.
- That`s it ?
- Yep.
- Well, no wonder they
bloody got it wrong.
[ Men Laughing ]
And then finally, um, we`ll make
measurements using... this.
Uh, b-but
to use this thing,
which we call
the transit,
we have to be able to clearly
view the summits of Newton
Beacon and Whitchurch Hill.
- But they`re not mountains.
- No, they`re not mountains,
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