LETTER XXII. 



To the same. 



SELBORNE, Jan. znd, 1769. 



EAR SIR, As to the peculiarity of jackdaws 

 building with us under the ground in rabbit- 

 burrows, you have, in part, hit upon the reason ; 

 for, in reality, there are hardly any towers or 

 steeples in all this country. And perhaps, 

 Norfolk excepted, Hampshire and Sussex are as 

 meanly furnished with churches as almost any 

 counties in the kingdom. We have many livings of two or three 

 hundred pounds a year, whose houses of worship make little better 

 appearance than dovecots. When I first saw Northamptonshire, 

 Cambridgeshire, and Huntingdonshire, and the fens of Lincolnshire, 



