. The natural history of Selborne [microform]. Natural history; Sciences naturelles. LETTER XXII. To the same. Selborne, yan. md, 1769. JEAR SIR,—As to the peculiarity of jackdaws building with us under the ground in rabbit- burrows, you have, in part, hit upon the reason ; for, in reality, there are hardly any towers or steeples in all this country. And perhaps, Norfolk excepted, Hampshire and Sussex are as meanly furnished with churches as almost any counties in the kingdom. We have many livings of two or three hundred pounds a year, whose houses of worship make little better appearance than
. The natural history of Selborne [microform]. Natural history; Sciences naturelles. LETTER XXII. To the same. Selborne, yan. md, 1769. JEAR SIR,—As to the peculiarity of jackdaws building with us under the ground in rabbit- burrows, you have, in part, hit upon the reason ; for, in reality, there are hardly any towers or steeples in all this country. And perhaps, Norfolk excepted, Hampshire and Sussex are as meanly furnished with churches as almost any counties in the kingdom. We have many livings of two or three hundred pounds a year, whose houses of worship make little better appearance than dovecots. When I first saw Northamptonshire, Cambridgeshire, and Huntingdonshire, and the fens of Lincolnshire,. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original White, Gilbert, 1720-1793; Allen, Grant, 1848-1899. London; New York : J. Lane
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