VIII.] 
OF SELBORNE. 
On two of the most coiispicuou.s eminences of this furt'St 
stand two arbours or bowers made of the boughs of oaks; tl,e 
one called Waldon Lodge, tlie other Brimstone Lodge : these the 
keepers renew annually on the feast of St. Barnabas, taking the 
old materials for a perquisite. The farm called Blackmoor, in 
this parish, is obliged to find the posts and brushwood for the 
former; while the farms at Greatliam, in rotation, furnish foi 
the latter; and are all enjoined to cut and deliver the materials 
at the spot. This custom 1 mention, because I look upon it to 
be of very remote antiquity. 
LETTEU VIII. 
TO THOMAS PENNANT, ESQ. 
On the verge of the forest, as it is now circumscribed, are tliree 
considerable lakes, two in Oakhanger, of which I have nothing 
particular to say ; and one called Bin's, or Bean's Pond, which is 
worthy the attention of a naturalist or a sportsman. For, being 
crowded at the upper end with willows, and with the Carex 
esjiifosa ; the sort which, rising into tall hassocks, is called by 
the foresters, torrets ; a corruptio]i, I suppose, of turrets ; it 
affords such a safe and pleasing shelter to wild ducks, teals, 
and snipes, that they breed there. In the winter this covert 
is also frequented by foxes, and sometimes by pheasants ; and 
the bogs produce many curious plants. 
By a perambulation of Wolmer Forest and the Holt, niade in 
1635, and in the eleventh year of Charles the First (which now 
lies before me), it appears that the limits of the former are 
much circumscribed. For, to say nothing of the farther side, 
with which I am not so well acquainted, the bounds on this 
side, in old times, came into Binswood ; and extended to the 
ditch of Wardleham Park, in which stands the curious mount 
called King John's Hill, and Lodge Hill ; and to the verge of 
Hartley Mauduit, called ]\lauduit Hatch ; comprehending also 
