104 NATURAL HISTORY 



LETTER XXII. 



TO THE SAME. 



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DEAR SIR; Selborne, Jan. 2, 1769. 



As to the peculiarity of jackdaws buildin 

 with us under the ground in rabbit-bur- 

 rows, you have, in part, hit upon the rea- 

 son ; for, in reality, there are hardly any 

 towers or steeples in all this country. And 

 perhaps, Norfolk excepted, Hampshire ?ii\& 

 iSWe^- are as meanly furnished with churches 

 as almost any counties in the kingdom. We 

 have many livings of two or three hundred 

 pounds a-year whose houses of worship 

 make little better appearance than dove- 

 cots. When I first saw Norlhaniptonshire, 

 Cambridgeshire, and Huntingdonshire, and 

 the fens of Lincolnshire, I wis amazed at 

 the number of spires which presented them- 

 selves in every point of view. As an ad- 

 mirer of prospects, I have reason to lament 



