NATURAL HISTORY 
bably the fame pair, built their neft in the conch, and laid their 
eggs. 
The owl and the conch make a ftrange grotefque appearance, 
and are not the leaft curious fpecimens in that wonderful colledion 
of art and nature 
Thus is inftinil in animals, taken the leaft out of it's way, an 
undiftinguifhing, limited faculty; and bUnd to every circumftance 
that does not immediately refped: felf-prefervation, or lead at once 
to the propagation or fupport of their fpecies. 
I am. 
With all refped:, &c. &c. 
LETTER XIX. 
TO THE SAME. 
DEAR SIR, Selborne, Feb, 14, 1774. 
I RECEIVED your favour of the eighth, and am pleafed to find 
that you read my Httle hiftory of the fwallow wtih your ufual 
candour : nor was I the lefs pleafed to find that you made objedions 
where you faw reafon. 
As 
