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bird alfo fometimes makes a fmall fqueak, repeated four or five 
times ; and I have obferved that to happen when the cock has 
been purfuing the hen in a toying way through the boughs of 
a tree. 
It would not be at all ftrange if your bat, which you have 
procured, fhould prove a new one, fince five fpecies have been 
found in a neighbouring kingdom. The great fort that I men- 
tioned is certainly a non-defcript : I faw but one this fummer, and 
that I had no opportunity of taking. 
Your account of the Indian -grafs was entertaining. I am no 
angler myfelf; but inquiring of thofe that are, what they fuppofed 
that part of their tackle to be made of? they replied " of the in- 
" teftines of a filkworm." 
Though I muft not pretend to great flcill in entomology, yet I 
cannot fay that I am ignorant of that kind of knowledge : I may 
now and then perhaps be able to furnilh you with a little 
information. 
The vaft rains ceafed with us much about the fame time as with 
you, and fince we have had delicate weather. Mr. Barker, who 
has meafured the rain for more than thirty years, fays, in a late 
letter, that more has fallen this year than in any he ever attended 
to; though, from July 1763 to January 1764, more fell than in 
any feven months of this year. 
LETTER 
