116 GILBERT WHITE OF SELBORNE ma 



May 17th, 1760, in the Garden Kalendar, " aftei 1 

 six months' absence in Lyndon and London," the , 

 only long holiday of his clerical life, and the last \ 

 considerable absence from Selborne. Meanwhile \m '■ 

 friend at Thornhill wrote on March 2nd, 1760 : — 



" You are impatient to have me say something of Thorn - 

 hill : but I shall say nothing at present, that I may leave the 

 greater impetus to come to us. Only that here are such 

 great capacities for improvement, that it is absolutely 

 necessary that you should come hither. . . . The roads are 

 worse than yours for a carriage. We have some scenes 

 almost Selbournian, but not your turf or soft Woods or 

 wild Hangers." 



