LETTER XXIII. 



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SELBORNE, Feb. i%tk, 1769. 



EAR SIR, It is not improbable that the Guernsey 

 lizard and our green lizards may be specifically 

 the same ; all that I know is, that, when some 

 years ago many Guernsey lizards were turned 

 loose in Pembroke College garden, in the Uni- 

 versity of Oxford, they lived a great while, and 

 seemed to enjoy themselves very well, but never 

 bred. - Whether this circumstance will prove anything either way I 

 shall not pretend to say. 



I return you thanks for your account of Cressi Hall ; but recol- 

 lect, not without regret, that in June 1 746 I was visiting for a week 

 together at Spalding, without ever being told that such a curiosity 



