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NATURAL HISTORY 



L E T T E R I. 



TO THE 



HONOURABLE DAINES BARRINGTON, 



V 



DEAR SIR; Selborne, June 30, 1769. 



Wh EN 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 promi|e, 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 

 writino's of others. 



