THE 



NATURAL HISTORY 



OF 



SELBORNE. 



SELBORNE, FROM UORTON. 



See, Sel borne spreads her boldest beauties round, 

 The varied valley, and the mountain ground, 

 Wildly majestic! What is all the pride 

 Of flats, with loads of ornament supplied? 

 Unpleasing, tasteless, impotent expense, 

 Compared with Nature's rude magnificence. 



WHITE. 





LETTER I. 



TO THOMAS PENNANT, ESQUIRE. 



THE parish of SELBORNE lies in the extreme eastern 

 corner of the county of Hampshire, bordering on the 

 county of Sussex, and not far from the county of 

 Surrey ; is about fifty miles south-west of London, in 

 latitude 51, and near midway between the towns of 

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