

LETTER VI. 



To Me same. 



OULD I omit to describe with some exact- 

 ness 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 pro- 

 ductions, both animal and vegetable; 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 [Liss], Rogate, and Trotton, in the county/ 

 of Sussex; by Bramshot, Hedleigh, [Headley], and Kingsley, 

 This royalty consists entirely of sand covered with heath and 

 fern; but it is somewhat diversified with hills and dales,, 

 without having one standing tree in the whole extent. Im 

 the bottoms, where the waters stagnate, are many bogs, whichi 

 formerly abounded with subterraneous trees ; though Dr. Plot 



