Your account of the Indian-grass was entertaining. I am no angler
myself; but inquiring of those that are, what they supposed that part
of their tackle to be made of? they replied 'of the intestines of a
silkworm.'

Though I must not pretend to great skill in entomology, yet I
cannot say that I am ignorant of that kind of knowledge: I may now
and then, perhaps, be able to furnish you with a little information.

The vast rains ceased with us much about the same time as with
you, and since we have had delicate weather. Mr. Barker, who has
measured the rain for more than thirty years, says, in a late letter,
that more has fallen this year than in any he ever attended to;
though, from July 1763 to January 1764, more fell than in any
seven months of this year.



Letter XXIII
To Thomas Pennant, Esquire

Selborne, February 28, 1769.

Dear Sir,

It is not improbable that the Guernsey lizard and our green lizard
may be specifically the same; all that I know is, that, when some
years ago many Guernsey lizards were turned loose in Pembroke
college garden, in the University of Oxford, they lived a great
while, and seemed to enjoy themselves very well, but never bred.