HKADJ.EV C'HUKL'II IK OILUKUT WHITK'.S TIME. 
LETTEK YII. 
TO THOMAS PENNANT, ESQ. 
Though large lierds of deer do much harm to the neighbour- 
hood, yet the injury to the morals of the people is of more 
moment than the loss of their crops. The temptation is 
irresistible ; for most men are sportsmen by constitution : and 
there is such an inherent spirit for hunting in human nature, as 
scarce any inhibitions can restrain. Hence, towards the begin- 
ning of this century, all this country was wild about deer-steal- 
ing. Unless he was a hunter, as they affected to call themselves, 
no young person was allowed to be possessed of manhood or 
gallantry. TheWaltham blacks at length committed such enor- 
mities, that Government was forced to interfere with that severe 
