THE NATUKAL HISTOEY OF 

 SELBORNE. 



SELBORNE, PROM DORTON. 



See, Selborne spreads her boldest beauties round, 



The varied valley, and the mountain ground, 



Wildly majestic ! What is all the pride 



Of flats, with loads of ornament supplied ? 



Unpleasing, tasteless, impotent expense, 



Compared with Nature's rude magnificence. WHITE. 



LETTER I. 



TO THOMAS PENNANT, ESQUIRE. 



HE parish of SELBOENE lies in the extreme 

 eastern corner of the county of Hampshire, 

 bordering on the county of Sussex, and not 

 far from the county of Surrey ; is about fifty 

 miles south-west of London, in latitude 51, 

 and near midway between the towns of Alton and Peters- 



E 



