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Though large herds of deer do much harm to the neighbourhood, yet the injury to the morals of the people is of more moment than the loss of their crops.
The parish I live in is a very abrupt, uneven country, full of hills and woods, and therefore full of birds.
General Howe turned out some German wild boars and sows in his forests, to the great terror of the neighbourhood; and, at one time, a wild bull or buffalo: but the country rose upon them and destroyed them.
You may depend on it that the bunting, emberiza miliaria, does not leave this country in the winter.
I want to be better informed with regard to ichthyology.
The parish of Selborne, by taking in so much of the forest, is a vast district.
Hedge-hogs abound in my gardens and fields.
It is, I find, in zoology as it is in botany: all nature is so full, that that district produces the greatest variety which is the most examined.
The French, I think, in general, are strangely prolix in their natural history.
Numbers of snipes breed every summer in some moory ground on the verge of this parish.
Floods are an act of God; flood
damages result from the acts of men.
