L E T T E R I.
IT is reafonable to fuppofe that in remote ages this woody and
mountainous diftridi: was inhabited only by bears and wolves*
Whether the Britons ever thought it worthy their attention, is not
in our power to determine ; but we may fafely conclude, from
circumftances, that it was not unknown to the Romans. Old people
remember to have heard their fathers and grandfathers fay that,
in dry fummers and in windy weather, pieces of money were forne-
times found round the verge of Woolmer-pond; and tradition had
infpired the forefters with a notion that the bottom of that lake
contained great ftores of treafure. During the fpring and fummer
of
