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the liberty I have taken in troubling you with it. If I 
have not been fufiiciently circumftantial in this ’relation, 
I fhall be at any time willing to anfwer any queries you 
may think proper to favour me with. I am, &c. 
LETTER II. , 
TO THE HON. DAINES BARRINGTO??. 
SIR, March 31, 1775. 
I s H O U L D not have deferred a Engle poll acknow- 
ledging the receipt of your favour of the 1 9th iilt* 
if I could fo foon have procured a fecond perufal of 
your very interefting paper, publifhed in the LXIId vo- 
lume of the Philofophical TranfacRions, in which you 
have thrown fo much light on the fubje6t, from the in- 
veftigation of which I derive the honour of your cor- 
refpondence. The feafon, as you obferve, is arrived 
when fwallows and martins do ufually begin to make 
their appearance ; but there has not yet been one feen in 
this part of the country, probably from the uncommon 
coldnefs of the feafon; but you may dej^end on my 
taking every method in my power to fulfil your requeft, 
fo far as to get fome of the birds fhot, as foon as they be- 
gin to ilfue forth from the rocks, where they have un- 
doubtedly remained in a torpid Rate fince the month of 
November laft. I am informed by a perfon who under- 
A a a 2 Rands 
