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LETTER XVII. 



TO THE SAME. 



DEAR SIR; Ringmer near Lewes, 



' Dec. 9, 1773. 



I RECEIVED your last favour just as I was 

 setting out for this place ; and am pleased 

 to find that my monography met with your 

 approbation. My remarks are the result 

 of many years observation ; and are, I trust, 

 true in the whole : though I do not pretend 

 to say that they are perfectly void of mis- 

 take, or that a more nice observer might 

 not make many additions, since subjects 

 of this kind are inexhaustible. 



If you think my letter worthy the notice 

 of your respectable society, you are at 

 liberty to lay it before them ; and they will 

 consider it, I hope, as it was intended, as 

 an humble attempt to promote a more mi- 

 nute inquiry into natural history ; into the 



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