OF SELBORNE. 8? 



Our writers record it to have been found 

 only twice in Great-Britain. From all these 

 relations it plainly appears that these long- 

 legged plovers are birds of South Europe, 

 and rarely visit our island ; and when they 

 do are wanderers and stragglers, and impel- 

 led to make so distant and northern an ex- 

 cursion from motives or accidents for which 

 we are not able to account. One thing 

 may fairly be deduced, that these birds 

 come over to us from the continent, since 

 nobody can suppose that a species not 

 noticed once in an age, and of such a 

 remarkable make, can constantly breed un- 

 observed in this kingdom. 



LETTER L. 



TO THE SAME. 

 DEAR SIR ; SELBOHNE, April 21, 1780. 



THE old Sussex tortoise, that I have men- 

 tioned to you so often, is become my pro 

 perty. I dug it out of its Winter dormi- 



