OF SELBOBNE. 
APPROACH TO THE VILLAGE. 
LETTER VI. 
TO THOMAS PENNANT, ESQUIRE. 
HOULD I omit to describe with some 
exactness the forest of Wolmer, of which 
three-fifths perhaps lie in this parish^ my 
account of Selborne would be very imper- 
fect ; as it is a district abounding with many 
curious productions, both animal and vegetable ; and has 
oftep afforded me much entertainment both as a sportsman 
and as a naturalist. 
The royal forest of Wolmer is a tract of land of about 
seven miles in length, by two and a half in breadth, run- 
ning nearly from north to south, and is abutted on, to begin 
to the south, and so to proceed eastward, by the parishes of 
Greatham, Lysse, Rogate, and Trotton, in the county of 
Sussex ; by Bramshot, Hedleigh, and Kingsley. This 
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