JO' 



NATURAL HISTORY 



LETTER V. 



TO THE SAME. 



HIII.I.I-U I. INK AND HUDGE, NEAR NUB FUN. 



AMONG 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 traffick 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 for furlongs together. 

 In many places they are reduced sixteen or eighteen 

 feet beneath the level of the fields; and after floods, 

 and in frosts, exhibit very grotesque and wild appear- 

 ances, from the tangled roots that are twisted among 

 the strata, and from the torrents rushing down their 

 broken sides ; and especially when those cascades are 



