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it gave way, the bird was Hung- from her 

 nest ; and, though her parental affection 

 deserved a better fate, was whipped 

 down by the twigs, which brought her 

 dead to the erround. 



LETTEll III. 



TO THE SAME 



A HE fossil shells of this district, and 

 sorts of stone, such as have fallen within 

 my observation, must not be passed over 

 in silence. And first I must mention, 

 as a great curiosity, a specimen that was 

 ploughed up in the chalky fields, near 

 the side of the Doicn, and given to me 

 for the singularity of its a})pearance, 

 wliich to an incurious eye, seems like a 

 petrified fish of about four inches long, 

 the cardo })assing for a head and moutli. 

 It is in reality a bivalve of the LituKrau 



