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very stones that composed them ; a hang- 

 ing coppice was changed to a naked rock; 

 and some grass grounds and ah arable field 

 so broken and rifted by the chasms as to 

 be rendered, for a time, neither fit for the 

 plough or safe for pasturage, till consider- 

 able labour and expense had been bestowed 

 in levelling the surface and filling in the 

 gaping fissures. 



LETTER XLVI. 



TO THE SAME. 



Selborne. 



resonant arbusta- 



1 HERE is a steep abrupt pasture field in- 

 terspersed with furze close to the back of 

 this village, well known by the name of 

 the Short Lithe, consisting of a rocky dry 

 soil, and inclining to the afternoon sun. 

 This spot abounds with the gryllus campes- 

 tris, or Jield- cricket ; which, though frequent 



