OF SELBORNE. 
great hail had on ponds and pools fay that the daflhing of the water 
made an extraordinary appearance, the froth and fpray ftanding 
up in the air three feet above the furface. The rufhing and 
roaring of the hail, as it approached, was truly tremendous. 
Though the clouds at South Lambeth, near London, were at that 
jundure thin and light, and no ftorm was in fight, nor within 
hearing, yet the air was ftrongly eie£tric; for the bells of an 
eledric machine at that place rang repeatedly, and fierce fparks 
were difcharged. 
When I firft took the prefent work in hand I propofed to have 
added an Annus Hijlorko-naiural'is^ or The Natural Hiftory of the 
Twelve Months of the Year ; which would have comprifed many 
incidents and occurrences that have not fallen in my way to 
be mentioned in my feries of letters ;• — but, as Mr. Aikhi of 
IVarrington has lately publiflied fomewhat of this fort, and as the 
length of my correfpondence has fufficlently put your patience to 
the teft, I fliall here take a refpeftful leave of you and natural 
hiftory together ; And am. 
With all due deference and regard^ 
Your moft obliged^ 
And moft humble fervant, 
SELBORNE, GIL, WHITE* 
June 25, 1787, 
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