1792 YOUNG'S 'JOUKNEY IN FRANCE' 249 



To the Bev. E. Churton. 



Selborne, Nov. 15, 1792. 



Dear Sir, — As your own account of the bad state of your 

 health, written to D"^ Chandler, gave us much concern, so in 

 proportion your late cheerful letter to Mrs. Chandler afforded 

 us no small satisfaction. I sit down now to invite you 

 to spend part of your Xtmass holidays with us. But as 

 your usual time of vacation, when divided into two parts, 

 will be little or nothing, we hope you will be able to extend 

 your furlow. You have of late years paid me a compliment 

 for varying my phrases of invitation ; but all those terms of 

 words are exhausted, and I have now nothing left but the 

 plain, honest assertion of wishing to see you, as often and 

 as long as you can make it agreeable and convenient to 

 yourself. 



I return you my best thanks for your quotation from 

 Aristotle, of which I hope to avail myself soon; and for 

 a correct copy of the inscription on the tomb of the great 

 Mr. Ray. It is pleasant to hear that friends to Genius are 

 still to be found, who, at periods, are ready to repair and 

 beautify the monument of departed worth, nor suffering 

 it to be effaced with weeds and filth. However his works 

 will be, as the inscription says, the most lasting monument 

 of his fame. Every time you come, I have been provided 

 with a new book for your inspection. In some respects you 

 will think Mr. Arthur Young^s 'Journey in France' repre- 

 hensible; and will not always subscribe to his politics. 

 However the writer is a man of observation, and has a 

 curious chapter on Climate. In three summers he threaded 

 every corner of that vast kingdom, and made an excursion 

 through the Pyrenees to Barcelona, and another over the 

 Alps and Apennine to Turin, Venice, Florence, &c. Mr. 

 Young, I fear, is no friend to us parsons. Mr. Marsham has 

 just sent me a long letter; but he complains of infirmities. 



