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LETTER VI. 



To the 



same. 



HOULD I omit to describe with some exactness 

 the forest of Wolmer, of which three-fifths per- 

 haps lie in this parish, my account of Selborne 

 would be very imperfect, as it is a district abound- 

 ing with many curious productions, both animal and 

 vegetable ; and has often afforded me much enter- 

 tainment 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 



