THE SWANNERY AT ABBOTSBURY 75 



chapel on St. Catherine's Hill, and the terraces showing 

 the ancient cultivation of the soil when each man had 

 a strip in the common fields. Game swarms, especially 

 hares and pheasants. But there is probably no more 

 ancient institution native to the place than the swannery, 

 which has existed for 800 years, and there seems no 

 reason why it should not continue for an equal time to 

 delight visitors from the cities of men to the city of 

 swans by the sea. 



