WOLMER FOREST. 
LETTER, wale 
TO THE SAME. 
SHOULD 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 entertainment 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 fern ; but is somewhat diversified with hills and dales, without 
having one standing tree in the whole extent. In the bottoms, 
where the waters stagnate, are many bogs, which formerly abounded 
with subterraneous trees ; though Dr. Plot says positively,* that 
* See his ‘‘ History of Staffordshire.” 
