TIM.] 



OF SELBORNE. 



On two of the most conspicuous eminences of this forest 

 stand two arbours or bowers made of the boughs of oaks ; the 

 one called Waldon Lodge, the other Brimstone Lodge : these the 

 keepers renew annually on the feast of St. Barnabas, taking the 

 old materials for a perquisite. The farm called Blackmoor, in 

 this parish, is obliged to find the posts and brushwood for the 

 former ; while the farms at Greatham, in rotation, furnish for 

 the latter ; and are all enjoined to cut and deliver the materials 

 at the spot. This custom I mention, because I look upon it to 

 be of very remote antiquity. 



LETTER VIII. 



TO THOMAS PENNANT, ESQ. 



ON the verge of the forest, as it is now circumscribed, are three 

 considerable lakes, two in Oakhanger, of which I have nothing 

 particular to say ; and one called Bin's, or Bean's Pond, which is 

 worthy the attention of a naturalist or a sportsman. For, being 

 crowded at the upper end with willows, and with the Carex 

 espitosa ; the sort which, rising into tall hassocks, is called by 

 the foresters, torrets ; a corruption, I suppose, of turrets ; it 

 affords such a safe and pleasing shelter to wild ducks, teals, 

 and snipes, that they breed there. In the winter this covert 

 is also frequented by foxes, and sometimes by pheasants ; and 

 the bogs produce many curious plants. 



By a perambulation of Wolmer Forest and the Holt, made in 

 1635, and in the eleventh year of Charles the First (which now 

 lies before me), it appears that the limits of the former are 

 much circumscribed. For, to say nothing of the farther side, 

 with which I am not so well acquainted, the bounds on this 

 side, in old times, came into Binswood ; and extended to the 

 ditch of Wardleham Park, in which stands the curious mount 

 called King John's Hill, and Lodge Hill ; and to the verge of 

 Hartley Mauduit, called Mauduit Hatch ; comprehending also 



