efforts óf numerous keepers, and thé fevere penalties that havé
been put in force againft them as often'as they have been detefted,
artd rendered liable to the lalh of the law. Neither fines rtór im-
prifonments can deter them : fo impolffible is it to extinguish the-
fpirit of fporting, which feerns to be inherent in human nature.
General Home turned out fome German wild boars and foWs in
his forefis, to the great terror of the neighbourhood 5 and, at One
time, a wild bull cir buffalo : but the country rofe upon them and
deftroyed them.
A very large fall of timber, confiding Of about One thöufand
oaks, has been cut thisfpring (viz. i 78*4} in FFe Holt föïeft; óöè
fifth of which, it is faid, belongs to the grantee, Lord Stazvel.
He lays claim alfo to the 10p sJfid top : but thé poor of the
parifhes of Blnjled and Frinjham, Bentley arid Kingjlèy, aflert that it
belongs to them; and, affenibling in a riotous maiinër, have actually
taken it all away. One than, Who keeps a team, has
carried home, for his fhare, forty Racks of wood. Forty-five Of
thefe people his Lordlhip has fervëd with aftioris.' Thefe 'trees1,
which were very found, and ih high, pérfèdtion, were itiikier^cuf,
viz. in February and March, before the bark would run. In old
times The Holt was eftimated to be eighteen miles, computed -mèa-
fure, from water-carriage, viis. from the town óf Ghérijty, on the
names; but now it is not half that diftarice, fihce thé Wey 'IS
made navigable up to the town Of Goddlmlng in thé county of
Surrey.
l e t t e r x.
TO TH E S A M E .
Auguft 4, 1767.
I t has been my misfortune never to have had any neighbours
whofe ftudies have led them towards the purfuit of natural knowledge
• fo that, for want of a companion to quicken my imluftry
and lharpen my attention, I have made but flender progrefs in a
kind of information to which I have been attached from my clnldhood.
_ ., .
As to jwallows (Mrundines rujl'm) being found in a torpid date
during the winter in the file of Wight, or any part of this country,
I never heard any fuch account worth attending to. But a clergyman,
of an inquifitive turn,, affures me, that, when he was a great
boy, feme workmen, in pulling, down the battlements of a church
tower early in the fpring, found two or three fivifts (hifundtnes
abodes) among the rubbilh, which were, at firft appearance,. dead 1
but, on being carried toward the fire, revived. He told me that,
■ out of his great care to preferye diem, he put.thero m a. paper-bag,-^
and hung them by the kitchen fire, where they were fuffocated- 1
Another intelligent perfon has informed me that, while he was a
fchoolboy at Bnghthelmfione, in $t$x, a great fragment o. t e
chalk-cliff fell down one ft.orroy winter on the beach; and that
many people found Jwalkms among the rubbrih : but, on my
q.ueftioning him whether he law any of thofe. birds: htmfelf; to
my no fmall.difapp.ointment, he anfwered me in the negative;
but that others allured him they did.
E a
A / n
Young