LETTER XXXVI. 1 



To the same. 



SELBORNE, Nov. 2znd, 1777. 

 EAR SIR, You cannot but remember that 

 the 26th and zyth of last March were very 

 hot days, so sultry that everybody com- 

 plained and were restless under those sensa- 

 tions to which they had not been reconciled 

 by gradual approaches. 



This sudden summer-like heat was attended 

 by many summer coincidences ; for on those two days the 

 thermometer rose to sixty-six in the shade ; many species of 

 insects revived and came forth ; some bees swarmed in this 

 neighbourhood ; the old tortoise, near Lewes, in Sussex, 

 awakened and came forth out of its dormitory and, what is 

 most to my present purpose, many house-swallows appeared 



1 This letter was published by Barrington in his " Miscellanies," and 

 was clearly called out by a communication from Barrington himself on the 

 subject with which it deals. ED. 



