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OF SELBORNE 



LETTER V. 

 TO THOMAS PENNANT, ESQ. 



AMONG the singularities of this place the two rocky hollow 

 lanes, the one to Alton, and the other to the forest, deserve 



I V\ 

 ROOKY LANE LEADING TO ALTON. 



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 



