nsxisr Norton 



LETTER V. 1 



To the same. 



MONG 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 fur- 



1 A made-up letter on the roads and human aspects of Selborne. ED. 



