THOUGHTS 



UPON 



N T I N G. 



LETTER L 



Briftol Hot-Wells, March 20, 1779. 

 '\7'OU could not have chofen, my friend, a 

 -*- better feafon than the prefent, to remind 

 me of lending you my Tiioughts upon Hunting; 

 for the accident that brought me hither is Hkely 

 to detain me fome time: belides, I have no 

 longer a plea for not obeying your commands. 

 Hitherto, indeed, I had excufed myfelf, in 

 hopes that fome publication on the fubjedl might 

 have rendered thefe letters needlefs; but lince 

 nothing of the kind, although fo much wanted, 

 has appeared, as I am now fufficiently unoccupied 

 to undertake the talk, I fhall not think it a tri- 



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