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and industrious, and live comfortably, in good stone 
or brick cottages, which are glazed, and have 
chambers above stairs: mud buildings we have 
none. Besides the employment from husbandry, 
the men work in hop-gardens, of which we have 
many, and fell and bark timber. In the spring and 
summer the women weed the corn, and enjoy a 
second harvest in September by hop-picking. For- 
merly, in the dead months, they availed themselves 
greatly by spinning wool for making of barragons, 
a genteel corded stuff much in vogue at that time 
for summer wear, and chiefly manufactured at Al- 
ton, a neighbouring town, by some of the people 
called Quakers. The inhabitants enjoy a good 
share of health and longevity, and the parish 
swarms with children. 
LETTER Vi. 
SHovutp I omit to describe with some exactness 
the forest of Wolmer, of which three fifths, perhaps, 
lie in this parish, my account of Selborne would be 
very imperfect, as it is a district abounding with 
many curious productions, both animal and vege- 
. table, and has often afforded me much entertain- 
ment, both as a sportsman and as a naturalist. 
The royal forest of Wolmer is a tract of land of 
about seven miles in length by two and a half in 
breadth, running nearly from north to south, and is 
abutted on, to begin to the south, and so to proceed 
eastward, by the parishes of Greatham, Lysse, 
Rogate, and Trotton, in the county of Sussex, by 
Bramshot, Hedleigh, and Kingsley. ‘This royalty 
consists entirely of sand, covered with heath and 
