14 GILBERT WHITE OF SELBORNE 1777 



Heath and Common. What may be observed of this kind, 

 by way of Liphook over Hindhead, I have not yet searched 

 and examined. i am, Sir, most respectfully, 



Your obedient servant, 



W"' Sewell. 



" Let those, who weekly, from the city's smoke, 

 Croud to each neighb'ring hamlet, there to hold 

 Their dusty sabbath, tip with gold and red 

 The milk-white palisades, that Gothic now, 

 And now Chinese, now neither, and yet both, 

 Checquer their trim domain." 



" These seem to be some of the best lines in Mr. Mason's 

 'English Garden,' which is a work that has disappointed 

 me much, especially as the subject and the credit of the 

 author had raised my expectations. By last post I wrote 

 to you on an interesting subject, and hope for your answer 

 soon : I shall now, I trust, be able to secure that 'Angulus ' 

 which the family have been labouring so long to obtain. 

 Harry and Cane left me this morning ; the former expressed 

 no uneasiness to me concerning the matters you hint at. 

 Dr. Chandler is reading brother John's papers with great 

 attention and assiduity ; but says, in order to their becoming 

 more popular that they should be thrown quite out of their 

 systematic arrangement." 



From Mulso, August 19, 1777 : — 



"I know you to be that sort of man, who is long in 

 determining upon any point, but constant to the plan 

 established. I have therefore considered you for some time 

 as a man plunged into mortar. ... I like the scheme of con- 

 farreation between your brother and you. He is a man of 

 sense and vivacity and will teach the goiXt to be of use to 

 you. I am not at all surprized at your improvement, even 

 though you had not had the furtherance of your brother, 

 for you have been nibbling at it a long time ; and to say 



