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the Peterborough family, who married a dowager Lady Pm^ro/v; 
Henry Bilfon Legge and lady; and now Lord Stawel, their fon. 
The bdy of General Hozve lived to an advanced age, long 
furviving her hufband ; and, at her death, left behind her many 
curious pieces of mechanifm of her father's conftrudting, who 
was a diftinguifl'ied mechanic and artift as well as warrior; and, 
among the reft, a very complicated clock, lately in pofleffion of 
Mr. Elmer, the celebrated game-painter at Farnham, in the county 
of Surrey. 
Though thefe two forefts are only parted by a narrow range of 
cnclofures, yet no two foils can be more different : for The Holt 
confifts of a ftrong loam, of a miry nature, carrying a good turf, 
and abounding with oaks that grow to be large timber; while 
Wolmer is nothing but a hungry, fandy, barren wafte. 
The former, being all in the parifh of B'lnjled, is about two miles 
in extent from north to fouth, and near as much from eaft to 
weft ; and contains within it many woodlands and lawns, and 
the great lodge where the grantees refide; and a fmaller lodge 
called Goofe-green-y and is abutted on by the parifhes of Kingjky, 
FrinJlMm, Farnham, and Bentley; all of which have right of com- 
mon. 
One thing is remarkable; that, though The Holt has been of old 
well flocked with fallow-deer, unreftrained by any pales or fences 
more than a common hedge, yet they were never feen within the 
limits of IVolmer ; nor were the red deer of JVohner ever known to- 
haunt the thickets or glades of The Holt, 
At prefent the deer of The Holt arc much thinned and reduced 
by the night-hunters, who perpetually harafs them in fpke of the 
f This prince was the inventor of mezzotiiito, 
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