NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE. any, 
have not been but lately, used in England, viz. se/lerz (celery), 
which is nothing else but the sweet smallage; the young shoots 
whereof, with a little of the head of the root cut off, they eat raw 
with oil and pepper ;” and further adds : “ curled endive blanched 
is much used beyond seas ; and, fora raw sallet, seemed to excel 
lettuce itself.”” Now this journey was undertaken no longer ago 
than in the year 1663, 
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TO THE SAME. 
SELBORNE, Fed. 12th, 1778. 
** Forté puer, comitum seductus ab agmine fido, 
Dixerat, ecquis adest ? et, adest, responderat echo, 
Hic stupet; utque aciem partes divisit in omnes; 
Voce, veni, clamat magna. Vocat illa vocantem.” 
DEAR SIR,—In a district so diversified as this, so full of hollow 
vales and hanging woods, it is no wonder that echoes should 
abound. Many we have discovered that return the cry of a pack 
of dogs, the notes of a hunting-horn, a tunable ring of bells, or the 
melody of birds very agreeably ; but we were still at a loss for a 
polysyllabical articulate echo, till a young gentleman, who had 
parted from his company in a summer evening walk, and was 
calling after them, stumbled upon a very curious one in a spot 
where it might least be expected. At first he was much surprised, 
and could not be persuaded but that he was mocked by some boy ; 
but repeating his trials in several languages, and finding his 
respondent to be a very adroit polyglot, he then discerned the 
deception. 
This echo in an evening before rural noises cease, would repeat 
ten syllables most articulately and distinctly, especially if quick 
dactyls were chosen. The last syllables of 
‘* Tityre, tu patulz recubans . Bis 
were as audibly and intelligibly returned as the first ; and there is 
no doubt, could trial have been made, but that at midnight when 
*** Chance parts the youth from his companions dear, 
He cries * Who’s here?’ and Echo answers ‘ Here;’ 
He stares around, and for a while stands dumb, 
Then shouts out, ‘Come, and Echo answers ‘ Come.’ 
