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retained) he lias had the goodness to show me. They are much 
defaced, and the legends are wholly obliterated : but one can be 
recognized as of the younger Faustina, and one as of Crispina, 
the Empress of Commodus. 
In 1865, having purchased the Temple and Blackmoor 
estates, I chose for my residence the spot then occupied by 
Blackmoor .Farm House, the position of which is shown by the 
words " Blackmoor House," on the accompanying map. The 
name " Blackmoor " properly belongs to the western and northern 
pjarts of the sandy ridges (raised considerably above the lower 
level of Woolmer Forest, and themselves overlooked from the 
west by the escarpments of the upper green-sand and the still 
loftier chalk summits behind them) by which the basin of 
AVoolmer Forest, where it is crossed by the main road between 
Petersfield and Farnham, is inclosed. To the north-east and east, 
the ridges of Blackmoor connect themselves with those of Hog- 
moor, Whitehill, and AVall-Down ; between which and the south- 
eastern and southern ridges, dividing this forest basin from the 
valley traversed by the road between Greatham and Liphook 
(on which stand fir plantations belonging to the crown), rises 
the conspicuous landmark of Holy- Water (or Holly- Water) 
Clump. The intermediate low ground, covered with rough 
heather, and interspersed here and there with pools of water at 
certain seasons, is in breadtli about a mile and a half from 
north to south, by about two miles in length from east to west. 
In a depression, at the narrowest point between the govern- 
ment plantations to the south-east and the most southerly part 
of the Blackmoor ridges, lies Woolmer Pond ; a shallow lake, 
nearly always fordable by man or horse in every part, and 
varying with the seasons from a large and broad sheet of water 
to a bed of sand, almost entirely dry in times of prolonged 
drought. 
All these ridges, and the basin below them, are upon the 
formation called by geologists the lower green-sand, which is 
naturally barren, or covered only with furze and heath, though 
now planted in many places, chiefly with Scotch fir. But the 
westerly ridge of Blackmoor extends back as far as the gault 
clay, on which there is abundance of oak and other wood. At 
