Excerpt from Country Rambles in England, or Journal of a Naturalist: With Notes and Additions

Many years have now passed away since we were presented with that very interesting and amusing book, the Natural History of Selborne nor do I recollect any publication at all resembling it having since appeared. It early impressed on myimind an ardent love for all the ways and economy of nature, and I was thereby led to the constant observance of the rural objects around me. Accordingly, re¿ectia have arisen, and notes been made, such asthe reader will find them. The two works do not, I apprehend, interfere with each other. The meditations of separate naturalists in fields, in wilds, in woods, may yield a similarity of ideas, yet the difi'erent aspects under which the same things are viewed, and characters considered, afford infinite variety of description and narrative: mine, I confess, are but brief and slight sketches, plain observations of nature, the produce often of intervals of leisure and shattered health, affording no history of the country, a mere outline of rural things, the journal of a traveller through the inexhaustible regions of nature.

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