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Henry Salt : On Cambrian and Cumbrian Hills: Pilgrimages to Snowdon and Scawfell

'Many thanks for your Hill book. ["On Cambrian and Cumbrian Hills"] I had meant to thank you verbally on the evening of your annual meeting last Friday but it came about on that very day I was compelled by aches to have some teeth extracted and did not feel fit to go out that evening in consequence. I have meanwhile kept your book and others on the country lately sent to me, to read when I get back [i.e. to the country] very soon. I have glanced though the chapter on wild life: of course you are right about the Raven and I was wrong in saying what I did about its rarity. But there is one thing in that charming chapter with which I am not in agreement with you and you know what that is. I do not want to see the large rapacious birds and beasts removed.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: William Henry Hudson      Print: Book

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