It would not be at all strange if your bat, which you have procured,
should prove a new one, since five species have been found in a
neighbouring kingdom. The great sort that I mentioned is certainly
a nondescript: I saw but one this summer, and that I had no
opportunity of taking.
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.
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