VI SELBORNE. 



abuts upon the late residence of White, and forms part of what 

 was held, and we believe is still held, along with the lease of 

 the house which he occupied. The trees on this are luxuriant, 

 but they stand apart or in well-arranged clusters, so that they 

 have sufficient relief from the grassy surface. The trees near 

 the church conceal most of the village; but the Hanger, the 

 more naked part of Selborne Hill, and the Nore Hill beyond, 

 come very finely out. The Hanger, which consists of beeches, 

 as mentioned by White, exceedingly rich in their foliage, and 

 with the shoots so long as at a distance to bear some resemblance 

 to larches, lies immediately above the lawn or field already men- 

 tioned, and the extremity of it slants downward towards the 

 church. On the lower part of the hill here, and immediately over 

 the village, there are some larches, which contrast well with the 

 deeper foliage of the adjoining beeches and the deciduous trees 

 in the village, and also throw back the more naked part of Sel- 

 borne Hill. The scattered trees on the top of this hill are also 

 near enough for appearing pencilled on the sky, and the woods 

 on Nore Hill are distinct though softened. In short, there is 

 nothing but water wanting to render this a very pretty landscape. 

 A slight idea of it may be formed from the cut. 



We have been somewhat minute in describing this general 

 view of the village of Selborne, because this is the only one 

 which gives a correct notion of the combined beauties of the place ; 



