196 NATIM{AL IIISTOIIY 



LETTER I. 



TO THE 



HONOURABLE DAINES BARRINGTON. 



DEAR SIR; Selborne, June 30, 1769. 



Whex I was in town last month I partly 

 engaged that I would some time do myself 

 the honour to write to you on the subject 

 of natural history : and I am the more 

 ready to fulfil my promise, because I see 

 you are a gentleman of great candour, and 

 one that will make allowances; especially 

 where the writer professes to be an out-door 

 naturalist, one that takes his observations 

 from the subject itself, and not from the 

 writings of others. 



