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retained) he has had the goodness to show me. They are much 

 defaced, and the legends are wholly obliterated : but one can be 

 recognized as of the younger Faustina, and one as of Crispina, 

 the Empress of Commodus. 



In 1865, having purchased the Temple and Blackmoor 

 estates, I chose for my residence the spot then occupied by 

 Blackmoor Farm House, the position of which is shown by the 

 words "Blackmoor House," on the accompanying map. The 

 name " Blackmoor " properly belongs to the western and northern 

 parts of the sandy ridges (raised considerably above the lower 

 level of Woolmer Forest, and themselves overlooked from the 

 west by the escarpments of the upper green-sand and the still 

 loftier chalk summits behind them) by which the basin of 

 Woolmer Forest, where it is crossed by the main road between 

 Petersfield and Farnham, is inclosed. To the north-east and east, 

 the ridges of Blackmoor connect themselves with those of Hog- 

 moor, AVhitehill, and Wall-Down ; between which and the south- 

 eastern and southern ridges, dividing this forest basin from the 

 valley traversed by the road between Greatham and Liphook 

 (on which stand fir plantations belonging to the crown), rises 

 the conspicuous landmark of Holy- Water (or Holly-Water) 

 Clump. The intermediate low ground, covered with rough 

 heather, and interspersed here and there with pools of water at 

 certain seasons, is in breadth about a mile and a half from 

 north to south, by about two miles in length from east to west. 

 In a depression, at the narrowest point between the govern- 

 ment plantations to the south-east and the most southerly part 

 of the Blackmoor ridges, lies Woolmer Pond ; a shallow lake, 

 nearly always fordable by man or horse in every part, and 

 varying with the seasons from a large and broad sheet of water 

 to a bed of sand, almost entirely dry in times of prolonged 

 drought. 



All these ridges, and the basin below them, are upon the 

 formation called by geologists the lower green-sand, which is 

 naturally barren, or covered only with furze and heath, though 

 now planted in many places, chiefly with Scotch fir. But the 

 westerly ridge of Blackmoor extends back as far as the gault 

 clay, on which there is abundance of oak and other wood. At 



