OF SELBORNE. 



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head.^ This breaks out of some high 

 grounds joining to Nore Hill, a noble 

 chalk promontory, remarkable for send- 

 ing forth two streams into two different 

 seas. The one to the south becomes a 

 branch of the Arun, running to Arundel^ 

 and so falling into the British channel : 

 the other to the north. The Selhorne 

 stream makes one branch of the Wejj ; 

 and, meeting the Black down stream at 

 Hedleigh, and the Alton and Farnham 

 stream at Tilford-bridge, swells into a 

 considerable river, navigable at Godal- 

 ming; from whence it passes to Guildford^ 

 and so into the Thames dit Weybridge ; and 

 thus at the Nore into the German ocean. 



* This spring produced, September 14, 1781, after 

 a severe hot Summer, and a preceding dry Spring 

 and Winter, nine gallons of water in a minute, 

 which is five hundred and forty in an hour, and 

 twelve thousand nine hundred and sixty, or two 

 hundred and sixteen hogsheads, in twenty-four hours^ 

 or one natural day. At this time many of the 

 wells failed, and all the ponds in the vales were 

 dry. 



