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rom His works of Creation. W. Derham, Canon of Windsor, Manby, West- 
end of St. Paul's, 1732. 
Sermons and Discourses on Several Subjects and Occasions. By Frances 
Atterbury. Exshaw, Dublin, 1741. 
Discourses on the Four Gospels, chiefly with regard to the peculiar design 
of each, and the order and places in which they were written, to which is 
added. An Enquiry concerning the Hours of St. John of the Romans, and of 
some other Nations of Antiquity. By Thomas Townson, Fellow of Magdalen 
College, Oxford. Rivington, London, 1787. 
Blair's Sermons, published 1777, and The Anatomical Instructor, or an 
illustration of the modern and most approved methods of preparing and 
preserving the different parts of the Human Body and of Quadrupeds. By 
Thomas Pole, Member of the Corporation of Surgeons in London. 
" Ad csedes hominum prisca amphitheatra patebant 
Ut longum discant vivere nostra patent." 
Inscrij). on Anaf. Theatre, Paris. Darlon and Co., Gracechurcli Street, 
1790. 
Mr. Bell infurmed me there was no portrait whatever existing 
cf Gilbert White. He however pointed out a portrait of an old 
gentleman who w^as White's grandfather as well as goi^- 
father ; he has a very intelligent face, strongly-marked furrows ; 
certainly the face of a man of a well-marked character. White's 
walking-stick w^as in one corner of the room : it is a pale 
malacca cane; on the top is a silver plate bearing the figure of an 
Heialdic creature, probably meant for a parrot. A portrait 
in oil of the hybrid between a black-cock and a pheasant is over 
the door. 
Tn the edition of 1713 there is a general view of Selborne. 
The figure standing on the brow of the hill, in the old-fashioned 
costume of White's time, is supposed to be White himself He 
probably wore a clerical wig, knee-breeches and buckles. I 
tried all I could to get local evidence or stories about White. A 
villager of the name of Henry Wells — a labourer, nick-named 
" Farmer" — told me that " White w^as thought very little of till he 
was dead and gone, and then he was thought a great deal of" 
He then referred me to Mrs. Small 
Mrs. Small is ninety- three years of age. I found her to be in 
perfect health, and a very shrewd, intelligent old woman. Mrs. 
Small was born in 1782, she was therefore eleven years old when 
White died ; she could not recollect much about him except that 
" he was a quiet old gentleman with very old-fashioned sayings ;" 
and that " there was in White's time a butcher's shop opposite 
his door, and a butcher's shop is there now." "White used 
to give a number of poor people a goose every Christmas. He 
was very kind in giving presents to the poor. He used to keep a 
locust which crawled about the garden." When I said " tortoise"^ 
^ White's tortoise was named Timothy. 
