THE NATURAL HISTORY 
[LETT, 
Shortheath, Oakhaiiger, and Oakvvoods ; a large district, now 
private property, tliougli once belonging to the royal domain. 
It is remarkable that the term purlieu is never once mentioned 
in this long roll of parchment. It contains, besides the per- 
ambulation, a rough estimate of the value of the timbeis, which 
were considerable, growing at that time in the district of the 
Holt; and enumerates the officers, superior and inferior, of those 
joint forests, for the time being, and tlieir ostensible fees and 
perquisites. In those days, as at present, there were hardly any 
trees in AVolmer Forest. 
I'ATH 1!Y I.DXt; I.VTHF., A FAVOURITE WAt.K OK (JII.TSKRT WHITE'S. 
Within tlie present limits of tlie forest are three considerable 
lakes, Hogmer, Cranmer, and \Yolmer ; all of which are stocked 
with carp, tench, eels, and perch ; but the fish do not thrive 
well, because the water is hungry, and the bottoms are a naked 
sand. 
A circumstance respecting these ponds, though by no means 
peculiar to them, I cannot pass over in silence; and that is, that 
instinct by which in summer all the kine, whether oxen, cows, 
calves, or lieifers, retire constantly to the water during the hotter 
