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which visit us. You will be sure, I hope, not to omit to make 

 inquiry whether your ring-ousels leave your rocks in the autumn. 

 What puzzles me most is the very short stay they make with 

 us ; for in about three weeks they are all gone. I shall be very 

 curious to remark whether they will call on us at their return in 

 the spring, as they did last year. 



I want to be better informed with regard to icthyology. 1 1' 

 fortune had settled me near the sea-side, or near some great 

 river, my natural propensity would soon have urged me to have 

 made myself acquainted with their productions : but as 1 have 

 lived mostly in inland parts, and in an upland district, my 

 knowledge of fishes extends little farther than to those common 

 sorts which our brooks and lakes produce. 



SELBORNE, Nov. -28, 1768. 



BRAMSHOTT CHURCH. 



