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easily ascertained, since they spend their 

 time on wild heaths and warrens ; the for- 

 mer especially, where there are stone quar- 

 ries : most probably it is, that their main- 

 tenance arises from the aurelice of the le- 

 pidoptera orcio, which furnish them with a 

 plentiful table in the wilderness. 



I am, &c. 



LETTER XLII. 



TO THE SAME. 



DEAR SIR; Selbokne, March 9, 1775. 



OOME future fan ?iist, a man of fortune, 

 will, I hope, extend his visits to the king- 

 dom of Ireland ; a new field, and a country 

 little known to the naturalist. He will not, 

 it is to be wished, undertake that tour 

 unaccompanied by a botanist, because the 

 mountains have scarcely been sufficiently 

 examined ; and the southerly counties of 

 so mild an island may possibly afford some 



