rL&ar Norton 



LETTER V, 1 



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 



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



