44 NATURAL HISTORY 



Legge and lady ; and now Lord Stawel, 

 their son. 



The lady of General Howe lived to an 

 advanced age, long surviving her hus- 

 band ; and, at her death, left behind her 

 many curious pieces of mechanism of her 

 father s constructing, who was a distin- 

 guished mechanic and artist,* as well as 

 warrior; and, among the rest, a very 

 complicated clock, lately in possession of 

 Mr. Elmer, the celebrated game-painter 

 at Farnham, in the county of Surrey. 



Though these two forests are only 

 parted by a narrow range of inclosures, 

 yet no two soils can be more different : 

 for The Holt consists of a strong loam, of 

 a miry nature, carrying a good turf, and 

 abounding with oaks that grow to be 

 large timber ; while Wolmer is nothing 

 but a hungry, sandy, barren waste. 



The former, being all in the parish of 

 Binsted, is about two miles in extent from 

 north to south, and near as much from 



* This prince was the inventor of mezzotinto. 



