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made of the three species of Hirundines ? little superior, 

 some beautiful passages excepted, to the fables of despised 

 Ogilby. Many thanks for your quotation from Taylor the 

 water-poet, which is very quaint, and comical: and in 

 particular for the Latin one from Gassendus, because it 

 so exactly describes my case. My head to this day is full 

 of the lessons of M. and E. Barker. 



We are likely to lose poor W. Dewey : he is afflicted with 

 a terrible asthma, and is in the last stage of a dropsy. He 

 will be missed in his various capacities, and as an honest, 

 blameless man. 



The knitter has finished two pairs of stockings, a fine 

 ribbed one, and a pair as thick as a jack-boot. 



On November 13th and 14th my Barometer was at 30*2 

 and 30-3. 



Pray has your father received my long ann. dividend up 

 to Midsummer 1782 ? When opportunity offers pray send 

 me down one pound of Mr. Todd's 14s. green tea. As Mrs. 

 White and I were returning from Fy field on Novr. 1st, 

 we saw several house -martins playing about under the 

 chalk cliff at Whorwel : the air was frosty, the sun warm. 



Mrs. J. White joins in respects. 



Mrs. Clement and child go well. 



Your loving friend, 



Gil. White, 



To Miss White. 



Selborne, Dec. 14, 1782. 



Dear Molly, — I must trouble you again to desire your 

 father to send us, when he has an opportunity to buy 

 it, half an hundred of good salt fish, to be sent down by 

 Earwaker the carrier who puts up at the Castle and Falcon 

 in Aldergate street. When the fish is sent, pray acquaint 

 me by letter of the price, that I may settle with my 

 neighbours. 



