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nearly as much from east to west ; and contains 

 within it many woodlands and lawns, and the great 

 lodge where the grantees reside ; and a smaller 

 lodge called Goose-green ; and is abutted on by the 

 parishes of Kingsley, Frinsham, Farnham, and Bent- 

 ley ; all of which have right of common. 



One thing is remarkable, that though the Holt 

 has been of old well stocked with fallow-deer, unre- 

 strained by any pales or fences more than a common 

 hedge, yet they were never seen within the limits of 

 VVolmer ; nor were the red-deer of Wolmer ever 

 known to haunt the thickets or glades of the Holt. 



At present the deer of the Holt are much thinned 

 and reduced by the night-hunters, who perpetually 

 harass them in spite of the efforts of numerous keep- 

 ers, and the severe penalties that have been put in 

 force against them as often as they have been de- 

 tected and rendered liable to the lash of the law. 

 Neither fines nor imprisonments can deter them ; so 

 impossible is it to extinguish the spirit of sporting, 

 which seems to be inherent in human nature. 



General Howe turned out some German wild 

 boars and sows in his forests, to the great terror of 

 the neighbourhood ; and, at one time, a wild bull or 

 buffalo : but the country rose upon them and de- 

 stroyed them.* 



* German boars and sows were also turned out in the New Forest by 

 Charles the First, which bred and increased : and their stock is supposed 

 to exist still. — Mitford. 



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