96 THE NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE, 
line, or stroke, that shall exactly define the just limits of that 
district called the Highlands. Moreover, all the great avenues 
to that mountainous and romantic country want to be well 
distinguished. The military roads formed by General Wade 
are so great and Roman-like an undertaking that they well 
merit attention. My old map, Moll’s Map, takes notice of 
Fort William, but could not mention the other forts that have 
been erected long since; therefore a good representation of the 
chain of forts should not be omitted. 
The celebrated zigzag up the Coryarich must not be passed 
over. Moll takes notice of Hamilton and Drumlanrig, and 
such capital houses; but a new survey, no doubt, should repre- 
sent every seat and castle remarkable for any great event, or 
celebrated for its paintings, etc. Lord Breadalbane’s seat and 
beautiful policy are too curious and extraordinary to be omitted. 
The seat of the Earl of Eglintoun, near Glasgow, is worthy 
of notice. The pine plantations of that nobleman are very 
grand and extensive indeed. 
LETTER XLIITI. 
A pair of honey-buzzards built them a large shallow nest, 
composed of twigs and lined with dead beechen leaves, upon a 
tall slender beech near the middle of Selborne Hanger, in the 
summer of 1780. In the middle of the month of June a bold 
boy climbed this tree, though standing on so steep and dizzy a 
situation, and brought down an egg, the only one in the nest, 
which had been sat on for some time, and contained the 
embryo of a young bird. The egg was smaller, and not so 
round as those of the common buzzard; was dotted at each 
end with small red spots, and surrounded in the middle with a 
broad bloody zone. 
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