(** This prince was the inventor of mezzotinto.)

Though these two forests are only parted by a narrow range of
enclosures, yet no two soils can be more different: for the Holt
consists of a strong 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, sandy, barren waste.

The former, being all in the parish of Binsted, is about two miles in
extent from north to south, and near as much from east to west, and
contains within it many woodlands and lawns, and the great lodge
where the grantees reside; and a smaller lodge, called Goose-green;
and is abutted on by the parishes of Kingsley, Frinsham, Farnham,
and Bentley; all of which have right of common.

One thing is remarkable; that, though the Holt has been of old
well-stocked with fallow-deer, unrestrained by any pales or fences
more than a common hedge, yet they were never seen within the
limits of Wolmer; nor were the red deer of Wolmer ever known to
haunt the thickets or glades of the Holt.

At present the deer of the Holt are much thinned and reduced by
the night-hunters, who perpetually harass them in spite of the
efforts of numerous keepers, and the severe penalties that have
been put in force against them as often as they have been detected,
and rendered liable to the lash of the law. Neither fines nor
imprisonment can deter them: so impossible is it to extinguish the
spirit of sporting, which seems to be inherent in human nature.

General Howe turned out some German wild boars and sows in his