HOLLOW LANE. 
LEAT Rae 
TO THE SAME. 
AMONG the singularities of this place the two rocky hollow lanes, 
the one to Alton, and the other to the forest, deserve our attention. 
These roads, running through the malm lands, are, by the traffic of 
ages, and the fretting of water, worn down through the first stratum 
of our freestone, and partly through the second ; so that they look 
more like water-courses than roads ; and are bedded with naked rag 
for furlongs together. In many places they are reduced sixteen or 
eighteen feet beneath the level of the fields; and after floods, and 
in frosts, exhibit very grotesque and wild appearances, from the 
tangled roots that are twisted among the strata, and from the 
torrents rushing down their broken sides; and especially when 
those cascades are frozen into icicles, hanging in all the fanciful 
