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166 he went. There was St. Bartholomew, St. John, St. Peter, St. Matthew: but these were all the Saints that I know of.

T. W. M.

October 24, 1799.

MY DEAR MISS

very much obliged to you for the book of quadrupeds and of birds. I drew two or three sea eagles; and in the original found the sea eagle very beautifully marked. The lanner is somewhat less than the buzzard. The quill feathers of the lanner are dusky. I now learn Latin, as I believe you know: and I have got pretty far through my exercise book. The length of the ringtail is twenty inches: its claws are black. Grandfather has a very large garden; and in summer he had some of the flower called rose-campion; and some roses: