OF SELBORNE. 
was raifed in long ridges refembling graves, lying at right angles 
to the motion. At the bottom of this enclofure the foil and turf 
rofe many feet againft the bodies of fome oaks that obftruded 
their farther courfe and terminated this awful commotion. 
The perpendicular height of the precipice, in general, is 
twenty-three yards ; the length of the lapfe, or flip, as feen from 
the fields below, one hundred and eighty-one ; and a partial fall, 
concealed in the coppice, extends feventy yards more : fo that 
the total length of this fragment that fell was two hundred and 
fifty-one yards. About fifty acres of land fulfered from this 
violent convulfion ; two houfes were entirely deftroyed ; one end 
of a new barn was left in ruins, the walls being cracked through the 
very ftones that compofed them ; a hanging coppice was changed 
to a naked rock ; and fome grafs grounds and an arable field fo 
broken and rifted by the chafms as to be rendered, for a time, 
neither fit for the plough or fafe for pafturage, till confiderable 
labour and expenfe had been beftovved in levelling the furface 
and filling in the gaping fifliires. 
LETTER 
