THOMAS FALCONER, Efq; OF I CHESTER. T is but justice, my dear Тoм, to addrefs to you a work which was begun with your approbation, carried on under your improving ftrictures, and has fo often amufed us during the many pleafing hours we have paffed together. At the fame time that I own the many advantages I have reaped from making you confident to the productions of an idle and rural pen; let me not fail in my acknowlegements to our common friend the Hon. DAINES BARRINGTON, who, with unremitting ardor, and with an honest freedom, has favored me with the most instructive hints on the subject of the following sheets. Would! would to Heaven that I was capable of adding the third to the number! But the grateful tribute of a figh is all I can give to what is now become only an inftructive memory. Simplicity of manners, zealous friendship, the promotion of all liberal arts, univerfal benevolence, with its amiable attendant charity, characterised the Prelate whofe lofs I deplore. You I know will excuse these expreffions of fenfibility, when you recollect it is Dr. LITTLETON, late Bishop of CARLISLE, whom I la ment. May you live long and happy, is the earnest wish of him, who is, with the trueft regard, Your most affectionate kinfman, And faithful humble fervant, Downing, March 25, 1769. Thomas Pennant Confifting of Twelve Plates, 4to. Imperial, with Descriptions. HIS Work will be continued and completed in Six Num Tbers, containing Figures of undefcribed Birds and Quadru peds, with fome Effays on the Indian Animals mentioned by the Antients, obfcured by Fable, &c. Sold by Mr. WHITE, Bookfeller, in Fleet-freet, and Mr. WALTERS, at Charing-Cross. |