Introductory remarks--Wiltshire little favoured by tourists--Aspect of the downs--Bad weather--Desolate aspect--The bird-scarer--Fascination of the downs--The larger Salisbury Plain--Effect of the military occupation--A century's changes--Birds--Old Wiltshire sheep--Sheep-horns in a well--Changes wrought by cultivation--Rabbit-warrens on the downs--Barrows obliterated by the plough and by rabbits Wiltshire looks large on the map of England, a great green county, yet it never appears to be a favourite one to those who go on rambles in the land. At all events I am unable to bring to mind an instance of a lover of Wiltshire who was not a native or a resident, or had not been to Marlborough and…
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