LETTER 



'To the same. 



August \th, 1767. 



T has been my misfortune never to have had any 

 neighbours whose studies have led them towards 

 the pursuit of natural knowledge ; so that, for 

 want of a companion to quicken my industry 

 and sharpen my attention, I have made but 

 slender progress in a kind of information to 

 which I have been attached from my childhood. 

 As to swallow 8 (hirundines rustic*} being found in a torpid state 

 during the winter in the Isle of Wight or any part of this country, 



J With this letter, the first bearing a date, we begin the real series of White's 

 interesting and valuable correspondence with Pennant. See Introduction. The 

 style of the true letters is far superior to that of the artificial additions. ED. 



