LETTER VII.i 



To 



HOUGH large herds of deer do much harm 

 to the neighbourhood, yet the injury to the 

 morals of the people is of more moment than 

 the loss of their crops. The temptation is 

 irresistible; for most men are sportsmen by 

 constitution : and there is such an inherent 

 spirit for hunting in human nature, as scarce 

 any inhibitions can restrain. Hence, towards the beginning 

 of this century all this country was wild about deer-stealing. 

 Unless he was a hunter, as they affected to call themselves, 

 no young person was allowed to be possessed of manhood or 

 gallantry. The Waltham blacks at length committed such 

 enormities, that government was forced to interfere with that 



1 Also an added letter, suggested by the need for explanation of the 

 last. ED. 



