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on the occasion. He showed me a letter which he intended to 

 send yon : and as Benj. and he have literary connections, I 

 hope you will forget and forgive. They always quarrel and 

 squabble by letter, but accord well when they meet. 



You do well to send Linn, your most curious specimens, 

 and not only your most curious ones, but also such common 

 ones as by the circumstances of his country he seems to be 

 unacquainted with. He will, I trust, act with candour, and 

 give you the best information he can concerning your nonde- 

 scripts. No doubt when he sees the Pratincola he will remove 

 it from the Himndines. 



As to my letters, they lie in my cupboard very snug: if you 

 will correct them, and assist in the arrangement of my journal, 

 I will publish. I have finished the monography of all the 

 Hirundines except the swift. 



Cromhall is so dismally circumstanced that I think there 

 can be no doubt which way I had best act. The late incum- 

 bent insolvent, and too negligent to leave any papers of 

 information behind him; no barn; I believe, no stable; a 

 wretched house ; and all the parish offices for years past in 

 the hands of an attorney and a gentleman steward ; and to 

 complete all, the manor-farm belonging to Dr. Boswortk's 

 persecuting peer ! Mr. Pen told a man a little before he dyed 

 that he had made one year £160 of his living, but that in 

 general it produced only £150. Dr. Bosworth says it may be 

 raised to £200. 



Write to Mr. Barrington under cover to the Bishop of 

 Llandaff in London. 



I have not been at Hawkley yet : but the falling of the 

 fragment from the cliff is the least part of the story ; for a 

 slipping below has disordered and damaged near 100 acres of 

 land, and ruined two houses ! The ground is rumpled and 

 forced up as it were into waves*. I did not suppose your 

 repairs would inform me about new buildings, I only wished 

 to know what expense would put a good firm shell in com- 

 fortable condition. The vexation of workmen, I fear, is great. 

 I bought in town Dr. Campbell's Political Survey of Great 



* [Sec vol. i. p. 230.] 



