1786 SWALLOWS IN FEANCE 155 



The following card was lately put into my hand. "J^ 

 Carpenter, carpenter, cooper, bent-ware maker and iron- 

 monger at Selborne near Alton, takes this method of 

 acquainting the public that he sells all kinds of bent-ware 

 goods, and all sorts of cooperage, chests of drawers, bedsteds 

 and tables, nails, locks, joints," &c., &c. 



I proposed to have written by Edmund but he hastened 

 away a day sooner than I was aware. 



Y"^ loving Uncle, 



Gil. White. 



At this time Dr. Chandler was travelling in the 

 South of France, whence he sent his friend at 

 Selborne frequent accounts of the occurrence of 

 swallows, which were duly noted by him in his 

 Naturalist's Journal. 



To Samuel Barker. Seleburne, Apr. 17, 1786. 



Dear Sir, — Partly through idleness, and partly through 

 infirmity I have too long neglected your late letter. My 

 thanks are due for your curious account of the climate of 

 Zarizyn,* and I feel myself the more obliged, because you 

 know I love to study climates. Whether you translate or 

 abridge D"^ Pallas, I do not know ; but should be glad to see 

 the remaining part of the year, if the subject does not give 

 you too much trouble. I believe all fervid regions afford 

 instances of undulating vapours; that at a distance appear 

 like water. Arabia, I know does; and the phenomenon is 

 finely alluded to in the Koran. In what language does 

 Pallas write? 



The summer-like weather of last Friday fetched out 

 Timothy. There is somewhat very forlorn and abject in that 



* This is to be found at pp. 641-646 of the third volume of the original 

 edition of Pallas's 'Travels' (Reise, u.s.w., St. Petersburg: 1776).— A. N. 



