' ADVERTISEMENT. v 
tions, yet there remains this confblation behind — that thefe 
his purfuits, by keeping the body and mind emploj^ed, 
have, under Providence, contributed to much health and 
cheerfuhiefs of ipirits, even to old age : and, what iliill adds 
to his happinefs, have led him to the knowledge of a circle 
of gentlemen whofe intelligent communications, as they 
have afforded him much pleafing information, fo, could he 
flatter himfelf with a continuation of them, would they ever 
be deemed a matter of lingular fatisfa£lion and improvement. 
Selborne, 
January ift, 1788. 
GIL. WHITE. 
