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CHAPTER XXVII. 

 VIIL TRENT PROVINCE. 



53. South Lincoln. 55. Leicester with Rutland. 



54. North Lincoln. 56. Nottingham. 



57. Derby. 



Lincolnshire. 



" In this county both the adder and the ring snake 

 are found, but in different kinds of places. The ring 

 snake is the more common on the damp heaths and 

 peaty ground, while the adder frequents the high dry 

 heaths and woodlands. I have measured very few 

 adders, but the ring snake averages from 2 feet 6 

 inches to 3 feet 3 inches. My grandfather, Edward 

 Shaw Peacock, of Bottesford Moors, who died in 1861, 

 was an accurate man, and a good naturalist for his 

 day. He left some MS. notes, from which the fol- 

 lowing extracts are taken. The words in brackets are 

 mine. 



" ' When Thos. L[ockwood] first began to warp 

 Nathanland [a well-known stretch of the common, 



