OF MY 
Ee le BP ROAGR Yt Lan cE: 
VIXI ET QUEM DEDERAT CURSUM FORTUNA PEREGI. 
A PRESENT of the ornithology of Francis Willughby, e{q. 
made to me, when I was about the age of twelve, by my 
kinfman the late Fob Salifbury, efq. of Bachegraig, in the 
county of Flint, father of the fair and celebrated writer Mrs. 
Piozzi, firt gave me a tafte for that ftudy, and incidentally a 
love for that of natural hiftory in general, which I have fince 
purfued with my conftitutional ardor. | 
A tour I made into Cornwal, from Oxford, in the year 1746 
or 1747, gave me a ftrong paffion for minerals and foffils, in 
which I was greatly encouraged by that able and worthy man, 
the late reverend doctor William Borlafe of Ludgvan, who, in the 
kindeft manner, communicated to me every thing worthy my 
notice. 
Tue firft thing of mine which appeared in print was inferted 
unknown to me; an abftract of a letter I had written to my 
ever venerated friend and uncle James Mytton, efg. on an earth- 
quake which was felt at Downing, April the 2d, 1750. This, 
with feveral fimilar teftinionies, may be feen in the xth volume 
of the Abridgment of the Philofophical Tranfactions, p. 511. 
B Havinc 
OrIGinat 
CAUSE OF MY 
STUDIES. 
A Tourin 
Cornwat, 1746 
OR 7. 
