v.] 
OF SELBORNE. 
LETTER Y. 
TO THOMAS' PENNANT, ESQ. 
Among tlie singularities of this place the two rocky liollow 
lanes, the one to Alton, and the otlier to tlie forest, deserve 
our attention. These roads, running through the malm lands, 
are, by the traffic of ages, and the fretting of water, worn down 
through the first stratum of our freestone, and partly through 
the second ; so that they look more lilve water-courses than 
roads ; and are bedded with naked rag for furlongs together. In 
many places they are reduced sixteen or eighteen feet beneath 
