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NATURAL HISTORY 



Bins or Beans pond, which is worthy 

 the attention of a naturalist or a sports- 

 man. For, being crowded at the upper 

 end with willows, and with the carex 

 cespitosa,^ it affords such a safeand pleas- 

 ing shelter to wild ducks, teals, snipes, 

 &c. that they breed there. In the winter 

 this covert is also frequented by foxes, 

 and sometimes by pheasants ; and the 

 bogs produce many curious plants. [For 

 which consult letter XLII. to Mr. Bar- 

 rington.~\ 



By a perambulation of Wolmer forest 

 and The Holt, made in 1635, and in the 

 eleventh year of Charles the first (which 

 now lies before me), it appears that the 

 limits of the former are much circumscri- 

 bed. For, to say nothing of the farther 



* I mean that sort which, rising into tall hassocks, 

 -I is called by the foresters iorrets ; a corruption, I sup- 

 pose, of turrets. 



Note. In the beginning of the Summer 1787^ the 

 royal forests of Wolmer and Holt were measured by 

 persons sent down by government. 



