NATURAL HISTORY 



some grass grounds and an arable field so broken and 

 rifted by the chasms as to be rendered, for a time, 

 neither fit for the plough nor safe for pasturage, till 

 considerable labour and expense had been bestowed in 

 levelling the surface and filling in the gaping fissures. 



HAWKLRY HJP. 



LETTER XLVI. 



TO THE SAME, 



SKI, BORNE. 



resonant arbusta 



THERE is a steep abrupt pasture field interspersed with 

 furze close to the back of this village, well known by 

 the name of the Short Lithe, consisting of a rocky dry 

 soil, and inclining to the afternoon sun. This spot 

 abounds with the Gryllus campestris, or field cricket, 

 which, though frequent in these parts, is by no means 

 a common insect in many other counties. 



