make many additions, since subjects of this kind are 

 inexhaustible. 



If you think my letter worthy the notice of your 

 respectable society, you are at liberty to lay it 

 before them ; and they will consider it, I hope, as 

 it was intended, as a humble attempt to promote a 

 more minute inquiry into natural history ; into the 

 life and conversation of animals. Perhaps hereafter 

 I may be induced to take the house-swallow under 

 consideration ; and from that proceed to the rest of 

 the British hir undines. 



Though I have now travelled the Sussex Downs 

 upwards of thirty years, I still investigate that chain 

 of majestic mountains with fresh admiration year by 

 year ; and think I see new beauties every time I 

 traverse it. This range, which runs from Chichester 

 eastward as far as Eastbourne, is about sixty miles 

 in length, and is called the South Downs, properly 

 speaking, only round Lewes. As you pass along, it 

 commands a noble view of the wild, or weald, on one 

 hand, and the broad downs and sea on the other. 

 Mr. Ray used to visit a family at Danny, just at the 

 foot of these hills; he was so ravished with the 

 prospect from Plumpton-plain near Lewes, that he 

 mentions those landscapes in his '' Wisdom of God 

 in the Works of the Creation " with the utmost 

 satisfaction, and thinks them equal to anything 

 he had seen in the finest parts of Europe. 



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