236 GILBERT WHITE OF SELBORNE 1773 



depth of the latter's well, a circumstance which 

 seems always to have attracted his attention. On 

 December 26th, 1773, Mulso writes from Winchester 

 regretting the failure of his efforts to find his friend 

 a locum tenens of his Faringdon curacy. He con- 

 tinues — 



" Mr. Hinton joined us in abusing you and Mr. Etty, for 

 not making your parish make a road to you, which he 

 averred could be done for very little. Think only of my 

 knowing no time of the year for getting at you without a 

 guide ; and seldom with one. You are the * toto divisos orbe 

 Britannos.' Cannot you threaten to vote against Sir Simeon 

 if he will not urge the Thing and help it ? What other use 

 is there now in general elections ? Have we not here a 

 Duke for our Mayor, and Baronets and Knights for our 

 humble servants, because the Day approaches? If you 

 lose this opportunity, I shall think that you love your 

 Rosamond's Bower, because the access is inscrutable." 



