104: NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE. 



country want to be well distinguished. The military roads 

 formed by General Wade are so great and Roman-like an 

 undertaking that they well merit attention. My old map, 

 Moll's map, takes notice of Fort William, but could not 

 mention the other forts that have been erected long 

 since ; therefore a good representation of the chain of 

 forts should not be omitted. 



The celebrated zig-zag up the Coryarich must not be 

 passed over. Moll takes notice of Hamilton and Drum- 

 lanrig, and , such capital houses ; but a new survey, no 

 doubt, should represent every seat and castle remarkable 

 for any great event, or celebrated for its paintings, etc. 

 Lord Breadalbane's seat and beautiful policy are too curious 

 and extraordinary to be omitted. 



The seat of the Earl of Eglingtoun, near Glasgow, is 

 worthy of notice. The pine plantations of that nobleman 

 are very grand and extensive indeed. 



LETTER XLIII. 



A PAIR of honey-buzzards, Buteo opivorus, sive Vespivorus 

 Raii, built them a large shallow nest, composed of twigs 

 and lined with dead beechen leaves, upon a tall slender 

 beech near the middle of Selborne Hanger, in the summer 

 of 1780. In the middle of the month of June a bold boy 

 climbed this tree, though standing on so steep and dizzy a 

 situation, and brought down an egg, the only one in the 

 nest, which had been sat on for some time, and contained 

 the embryo of a young bird. The egg was smaller, and not 

 so round as those of the common buzzard ; was dotted at 



