“OP MY TEILTERARY. LIFE. 
- logue of the performances of Mofes Griffith. 1 never fhould 
deny copies of them to any gentleman who would make a dig- 
nified ufe of them. 
In this year Peter Brown, a Dane by birth, anda very neat 
limner, publifhed his illuftrations of natural hiftory in large 
quarto, with L plates. At my recommendation, Mr. Loten 
lent to him the greateft part of the drawings to be engraven, 
being of birds painted in India. I patronized Brown, drew up 
the greateft part of the defcriptions for fin; but had not the 
~ left concern in the preface. 
In 1776 Mr. White publifhed a new edition of the three vo- 
lumes of the Briti/h Zoology, in quarto, and in oétavo, and in- 
ferted in them the citi additional plates publifhed in 1770. 
In the fpring of the year 1777 I made an excurfion from 
town to Canterbury, along the poft road, and digrefled from 
Canterbury to Sandwich, and from thence to Deal, and by Sz. 
Margaret’s church and Clg to Dover. In this tour I had the 
happinefs of making acquaintance with Mr. Latham of Dart- 
ford, Mr. Facobs of Feverfoam, and Mr. Boys of Sandwich; all 
perfons of diftinguifhed merit in the ftudy of natural hiftory 
~ and antiquities. 
Iw that year ¥ publifhed a fourth volume of the Briti/p Zoology, 
which contained the Vermes, the Cruftaceous, and Teftaceous ani- 
mals of our country; this was publifhed in quarto and odtavo, 
and illuftrated with xciii plates. 
To this volume I prefixed a moft merited eulogy on my 
refpected friend Benjamin Stillingfleet, elq. who died Dec. 15th, 
1771, at his lodgings in Piccadilly, aged 71. His public and 
private character might demand this tribute: but the many 
E perfonal 
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Brown’s Iiius- 
TRATION OF 
Naturat His- 
TORY. 
1777. 
Tour in Kent. 
