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v/arm, forward, crumbling mould, called black malm, wiiich Iccms 
highly faturated with vegetable and animal manure; and thele 
may perhaps have been the original fite of the town; while the 
woods and coverts might extend down to the oppofite bank. 
At each end of the village, which runs from fouth-eall; to 
north- weft, arifes a fmall rivulet: that at the north-weft end fre- 
quently fails; but the other is a fine perennial fpring, little in- 
fluenced by drought or wet feafons, called Well-head^. This 
breaks out of fome high grounds joining to Nore Hill, a noble 
chalk promontory, remarkable for fending forth two ftreams into 
two different feas. The one to the fouth becomes a branch of 
the Arun, running to Arundel, and fo falling into the Britijh 
channel : the other to the north. The Selborne ftream makes one 
branch of the IVey, and, meeting the Black-down ftream at Hedleigb, 
and the Alton and Farnham ftream at Tilford-bridge, fwells into a 
confiderable river, navigable at Godalming; from whence it pafles 
to Gmldford, and fo into the Thames at IVeybridge; and thus at the 
Nore into the German ocean. 
Our wells, at an average, run to about fixty-three feet, and 
when funk to that depth feldom fail ; but produce a fine limpid 
water, foft to the tafte, and much commended by thofe who 
drink the pure element, but which does not lather well with foap. 
To the north-weft, north and eaft of the village, is a range of 
fair enclofures, confifting of what is called a zvbitc malm, a fort of 
a This fpring produced, September 14, 1781» after a fevere hot fummer, and a pre- 
ceding dry fpring and winter, nine gallons of water in a minute, which is five hundred 
and forty in an hour, and twelve thoufand nine hundred and fixty, or two hundred and 
fixteen hogflieads, in twenty-four hours, or one natural day. At this time many of the 
wells failed, and all the ponds in the vales were dry, 
B a rotten 
