OF SELBORNE. 



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LETTER VI. 



TO THE SAME. 



Should I omit to describe with some 

 exactness the forest of Wolmer, of which 

 three fifths perhaps lie in this parish, my 

 account of Selhorne would be very im- 

 perfect, as it is a district abounding 

 with many curious productions, both 

 animal and vegetable ; and has often 

 afforded me much entertainment both 

 as a sportsman and as a naturalist. 



The royal forest of Wolmer a tract of 

 land of about seven miles in length, by 

 two and a half in breadth, running nearly 

 from North to South, and is abutted on, 

 to begin to the South, and so to proceed 

 eastward, by the parishes of Great ham, 

 Lysse, Rogate^ and Trotton, in the county 

 of Sussex ; by Brains hot, Hedleigh, and 

 . Kingsley. This royalty consists entirely 

 of sand covered with heath and fern ; 



