LETTER 



To Thomas Pennant, Esq. 



?HE parish of Selborne lies in the extreme 

 eastern corner of the county of Hampshire, 

 bordering on the county of Sussex, and not 

 far from the county of Surrey ; is about fifty 

 miles south-west of London, in latitude fifty- 

 one, and near midway between the towns of 

 Alton and Petersfield. Being very large and 

 extensive it abuts on twelve parishes, two of which are in 

 Sussex, viz., Trotton and Rogate. If you begin from the 

 south and proceed westward, the adjacent parishes are 

 Emshot, Newton Valence, Faringdon, Harteley Mauduit, 



1 This letter, with some of those that follow it, seems never to have been 

 written as such to the person to whom it was nominally addressed. It 

 was probably added to the series by White when publication was finally 

 decided upon, as explained in the Introduction. White evidently disliked 

 the imputation of deliberate authorship, and modestly covered his prefatory 

 matter with the cloak of correspondence. ED. 



