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The " Obelisk," at the top of the zigzag path at Selborne To face page 72 

 From a recent photograph by Francis Rashleigh Holt- White. 



The Hot Wells at Bristol in the Eighteenth Cen- 

 tury, from a meadow near Rownham passage . ,, ,,84 

 From an engraving of a picture by Paul Sandby, r.a. 



Catharine Battie, retat 19 . . . ,, ,,128 



From an oil painting in the possession of the author. 



Verses by Gilbert White upon the " Shepherdesses," 

 given by him to Catharine Battie . . . ,, ,,136 



Fleet Street in the Eighteenth Century . „ ,, 168 



From a print in the British Museum collections. 



Mrs. Snooke, as a young woman . . . ,» ,, 204 



From an oil painting in the possession of Mrs. John White. 



Oriel College in the Eighteenth Centuky . ,, „ 228 



From an old print. 



" A Selbornian View " . . . . ,, ,,292 



From a drawing (probably made in London after a visit to Bel- 

 borne) by Thomas Mulso in 1751. 



Thomas Whiie, brother of Gilbert White . . „ ,,298 



From an oil painting by Thomas Robinson, in tlie possession of 

 the author. 



The Hermitage AT Selborne . . . ,, ,, 328 



From a water colour drawing by Samuel Henry Grimm executed 

 in 1777 for Henry White, now in the possession of the Right Hon- 

 ourable the Earl ol Stamford. About ith the size of the original. 



