THOU G H T S 



UPON 



HUNTING 



IN A SERIES OF LETTERS. 



LETTER I. 



Bristol Hot.Wells, March 20, 1779- 



XTOU could not, my friend, have chosen a better season 

 than the present, to remind me of sending you 

 my Thoughts upon Hunting j for the accident that 

 brought me hither is likely to detain me some time : 

 besides, I have no longer a plea for not obeying your 

 commands. Hitherto, indeed, I had excused myself, in 

 hopes that some publication on the subjed might have 

 rendered these Letters needless ; but since nothing of the 

 kind, although so much wanted, has appeared ; as I am now 

 sufficiently unoccupied to undertake the task, I shall not 



