Raven 



LETTER XXX. 



To the same. 



SELBORNE, Aug. u/, 1770. 



EAR SIR, The French, I think, in general are 

 strangely prolix in their natural history. What 

 Linnaeus says with respect to insects holds good in 

 every other branch : " Verbositas pr*esentis s<eculi, 

 calami fas artis" 



Pray how do you approve of Scopoli's new 

 work ? As I admire his " Entomologia," I long 

 to see it. 



I forgot to mention in my last letter (and had not room to insert 

 in the former) that the male moose, in rutting-time, swims from 

 island to island, in the lakes and rivers of North America, in pursuit 

 of the females. My friend, the chaplain, saw one killed in the water 

 as it was on that errand in the river St. Lawrence : it was a 

 monstrous beast, he told me ; but he did not take the dimensions. 



