NATURAL HISTORY 



if you begin from the south and proceed 

 westward the adjacent parishes are Em- 

 shot^ Newton., Valence^ Faringdon, Harte- 

 ley., Mauduit^ Great Wardleham, Kings- 

 ley, Hadleighj Bramshot, Trotton^ Jtogaie, 

 Lysse, and Greatham, The soils of this 

 district are almost as various and diver- 

 sified as the views and aspects. The high 

 part to the south-west consists of a vast 

 hill of chalk, rising three hundred feet 

 above the village ; and is divided into a 

 sheep down, the high wood, and a long 

 hanging wood called The Hanger, The 

 covert of this eminence is altogether 

 beech, the most lovely of all forest trees, 

 whether we consider its smooth rind or 

 bark, its glossy foliage, or graceful pen- 

 dulous boughs. The down or sheep- 

 walk, is a pleasing park-like spot, of 

 about one mile by half that space, jutting 

 out on the verge of the hill-country, 

 where it begins to break down into the 

 plains, and commanding a very engaging 

 view, being an assemblage of hill, dale. 



