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always three pairs on our hill every year. Did you know S r - John 
Cullum 9 of your part of the world? He was an agreeable, worthy 
man, & a good antiquary. I was also well acquainted with your 
late- good Bishop Horne: 10 he has often been at my house. I 
concur with you most heartily in y r - admiration of the harmony and 
beauty of the works of the creation ! Physico-theology is a noble 
study, worthy the attention of the wisest man! Pray write. Our 
swifts have behaved strangely this summer : for the most part 
there were but three round the church, except now and then of 
a fine evening, when there were 13. They seem to be all gone. 
Ilouse-martins leave Gibraltar by the end of July! I conclude with 
all due regard. 
Y r Humble S. 
Gil. WniTE. 
[On the back of this letter is endorsed in the handwriting of Mr. Marsham 
the following description of a “ Wall-creeper,” which, as will be seen by 
his next letter he obtained at Stratton : — “ Bird 6 inches from Bill end to 
“ Tail tip, and 11 inches from tip of Wings. The Bill very slender, and + 
“ inch long. Body cinnerius. Wings near the Body chiefly red and fading 
‘‘to near black. The Quill feathers have two large spots, the outmost 
“ white, the lesser yellow. Stratt., Oct. 30, 1792.” 
In the margin of Mr. Marsham’s copy of Willughby’s Ornithology, now in 
the possession of his great grandson, the Rev. H. P. Marsham, a similar 
description is written. — T.S.] 
9 Sir John Cullum, born 1733, Fellow of St. Catharine’s Hall, Cambridge. 
Rector of Hawstead (1762) and Vicar of Great Thurlow (1774) both in 
Suffolk. His History of the former parish and of Hardwick Hall forms 
No. xxiii. of the ‘ Bibliographia Topographica Britannica,’ and was repub- 
lished in 1813. He wrote also ‘ Observations on Cedars’ and on Yew-trees in 
churchyards. Died 1785. (Rose, ‘ Biographical Dictionary,’ vi, pp. 507, 
508.)— A. N. 
10 George Horne, born 1730, at Otham, near Maidstone, scholar of Univer- 
sity, Fellow and afterwards (1768) President of Magdalen College, Oxford ; 
Dean of Canterbury, 17S1 ; Bishop of Norwich, 1790 (Le Neve, Fasti Eccles. 
Angl. Ed. Hardy, ii, p. 474), died 17th Jan. 1792. A distinguished Hebra- 
ist, author of many critical and controversial works, but chiefly known for 
his ‘ Commentary on the Book of Psalms.’ His life was written by his 
friend Jones of Nayland. (Rose, ut supra, viii, p. 372.)— A.N. 
