Snow-banting 



LETTER XXVI. 



To the same. 



SELBORNE, December 8tt>, 1769. 



[EAR SIR, I was much gratified by your com- 

 municative letter on your return from Scotland, 

 where you spent some considerable time, and 

 gave yourself good room to examine the natural 

 curiosities of that extensive kingdom, both those 

 of the islands, as well as those of the highlands. 

 The usual bane of such expeditions is hurry, 

 because men seldom allot themselves half the time they should do ; 

 but, fixing on a day for their return, post from place to place, 

 rather as if they were on a journey that required dispatch, than 

 as philosophers investigating the works of nature. You must have 

 made, no doubt, many discoveries, and laid up a good fund of 

 materials for a future edition of the " British Zoology " ; and will 



