LETTER XXII. 



To the same. 



SELBORNE,/a. 2nd, 1769. 



EAR SIR, As to the peculiarity of jackdaws 

 building with us under the ground in rabbit- 

 burrows, you have, in part, hit upon the 

 reason ; for, in reality, there are hardly any 

 towers or steeples in all this country. And 

 perhaps, Norfolk excepted, Hampshire and 

 Sussex are as meanly furnished with churches 

 as almost any counties in the kingdom. We have many 

 livings of two or three hundred pounds a year, whose houses 

 of worship make little better appearance than dovecots. 

 When I first saw Northamptonshire, Cambridgeshire, and 

 Huntingdonshire, and the fens of Lincolnshire, I was amazed 

 at the number of spires which presented themselves in every 

 point of view. As an admirer of prospects, I have reason to 



