and coverts might extend down to the opposite bank.

At each end of the village, which runs from south-east to north-
west, arises a small rivulet: that at the north-west end frequently
fails; but the other is a fine perennial spring, little influenced by
drought or wet seasons, called Well-head.* This breaks out of
some high grounds joining to Core Hill, a noble chalk promontory,
remarkable for sending forth two streams into two different seas.
The one to the south becomes a branch of the Arun, running to
Arundel, and so falling into the British Channel: the other to the
north. The Selborne stream makes one branch of the Wey; and
meeting the Black-down stream at Hedleigh, and the Alton and
Farnham stream at Tilford-bridge, swells into a considerable river,
navigable at Godalming; from whence it passes to Guildford, and
so into the Thames at Weybridge; and thus at the Nore into the
German Ocean.
(* This spring produced, September 14, 1781, after a severe hot
summer, and a preceding dry spring and winter, nine gallons of
water in a minute, which is five hundred and forty in an hour, and
twelve thousand nine hundred and sixty, or two hundred and
sixteen hogsheads, 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.)

Our wells, at an average, run to about sixty-three feet, and when
sunk to that depth seldom fail; but produce a fine limpid water, soft
to the taste, and much commended by those who drink the pure
element, but which does not lather well with soap.

To the north-west, north and east of the village, is a range of fair