OF SELBOENE. 



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APPROACH TO THE VILLAGE. 



LETTER VI. 



TO THOMAS PENNANT, ESQUIRE. 



HOULD I omit to describe with some 

 exactness the forest of Wolmer, of which 

 three-fifths perhaps lie in this parish, my 

 account of Selborne would be very imper- 

 fect ; as it is a district abounding with many 

 curious productions, both animal and vegetable ; and has 

 oftep afforded me much entertainment both as a sportsman 

 and as a naturalist. 



The royal forest of Wolmer is a tract of land of about 

 seven miles in length, by two and a half in breadth, run- 

 ning nearly from north to south, and is abutted on, to begin 

 to the south, and so to proceed eastward, by the parishes of 

 Greatham, Lysse, Rogate, and Trotton, in the county of 

 Sussex ; by Bramshot, Hedleigh, and Kingsley. This 



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