coppice, extends seventy yards more : so that the 

 total length of this fragment that fell was two hun- 

 dred and fifty-one yards. About fifty acres of land 

 suffered from this violent convulsion ; two houses 

 were entirely destroyed ; one end of a new barn was 

 left in ruins, the walls being cracked through the 

 very stones that composed them ; a hanging coppice 

 was changed to a naked rock : and some grass 

 grounds and an arable field so broken and rifted by 

 the chasms as to be rendered, for a time, neither fit 

 for the plough nor safe for pasturage, till consider- 

 able labour and expense had been bestowed in level- 

 ling the surface and filling in the gaping fissures. 



Selborne. 



LETTER LXXXVIII. 

 To THE Honourable Daines Barrington. 



" resonant arbusta ." 



(ViRG. Ed. ii. 13.) 



" The groves resound." 



There is a steep abrupt pasture field interspersed 

 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 Grylhis carnpcstris, or field- 

 cricket, which, though frequent in these parts, is 



