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THE WREKIN FOEEST 



surrounded it, it must have looked like a barren 

 island amid a waving sea of green. From its posi- 

 tion and outline too, it appears to liave been selected 

 during the struggles wbich. took place along the 



Needle's Eye. 



borders as a military fortress, judging from tbe 

 entrencliments near its summit, and the tumidi both 

 here and in the valley at its foot, where numbers of 

 broken weapons have been found. At a later period 



