THE NATURAL HISTORY OF 
SELBORNE. 
SELBORNE, FROM DORTON. 
See, Selborne spreads her boldest beauties round, 
The varied valley, and the mountain ground, 
Wildly majestic ! What is all the pride 
Of flats, w^ith loads of ornament supplied ? — 
Unpleasing, tasteless, impotent expense, 
Compared with Nature's rude magnificence. White. 
LETTER 1. 
TO THOMAS PENNANT, ESQUIRE. 
HE parish, of Selboene lies in the extreme 
eastern corner of the county of Hampshire^ 
bordering on the county of Sussex, and not 
far from the county of Surrey ; is about fifty 
miles south-west of London, in latitude 61, 
and near midway between the towns of Alton and Peters- 
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