103 NATURAL HISTORY 



nests in the interstices between the upright 

 and the impost stones of that amazing work 

 of antiquity : which circumstance alone 

 speaks the prodigious height of the upright 

 stones, that they should be tall enough to 

 secure those nests from the annoyance of 

 shepherd-boys, who are always idling round 

 that place. 



One of my neighbours last Saturdat/, 

 November the 26th, saw a martin in a sheU 

 tered bottom : the sun shone warm, and 

 the bird was hawking briskly after flies. I 

 am now perfectly satisfied that they do not 

 &11 leave this island in the Winter. 



You judge very right, I think, in speaks 

 ing with reserve and caution concerning the 

 cures done by toads : for, let people ad^ 

 vance what they will on such subjects, yet 

 there is such a propensity in mankind to^ 

 wards deceiving and being deceived, that 

 one cannot safely relate any thing from 

 common report, especially in print, with^ 

 out expressing some degree of doubt and 

 suspicion. 



Your approbation, with regard to my 



