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dactyl,* that gets into the cliffs on the coasts of Sussex, and 

 terebrates the chalk in a most curious manner. You saw, 

 I think, a piece of chalk so bored at my house. I have 

 received a most violent complimenting letter from Mr. 

 Pennant lately. He is going to publish a second edition 

 of ' British Zoology,' and is to do wonders with the in- 

 formation extracted from my letters. I shall take the 

 opportunity of laying before him the more glaring faults 

 in the first edition.! Ice this morning! My grapes are 

 now delicate. Pray write while I am at Ringmer. Jack 

 joins in respects to my Sister and yourself. 



Pdng-ouzels in plenty this last Septr. 



Y". affect. 



Gil. White. 



On November 29th, 1773, Mulso writes from his 

 Canon's house at Winchester : — 



I am booked into strict residence. . . . You who receive 

 Letters and keep up a correspondence with the philosophers 

 of Europe, think little of an epistle from the Vice-Bean of 

 Winchester; but my new title and my old friendship are 

 all that I have at present to offer from. 



Dear Gil, 

 Yours sincerely and affectionately, 



J. Mulso. 



To the Bev. John White. 



Ringmer, December 9th, 1773. 



Dear Brother, — Jack and I arrived here on Thursday, 

 December 2nd, and found that your letter of November 

 11th had waited for us more than a fortnight. We were 

 very agreeably surprised to find Mrs. Snooke so much re- 

 covered after so great a plunge. She is cheerful and chatty, 



* Pholas dactylus of Conchology. — A. N. 



t That is to say the first octavo edition. — A. N. 



