52 The Natural History of Selborne 



not only for the sake of drinking, but on account of insects, which 

 are found over them in the greatest plenty. As I was going some 

 years ago, pretty late, in a boat from Richmond to Sunbury, on a 

 warm summer's evening, I think I saw myriads of bats between the 

 two places ; the air swarmed with them all along the Thames, so 

 that hundreds were in sight at a time. I am, &c. 



Long-eared (sat 



