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the superintendence of the kitchen quarters and 

 fruit walls. 



A remark made by the excellent Mr. Ray in his 

 Tour of Europe, at once surprises us, and corrobo- 

 rates what has been advanced above ; for we find 

 him observing, so late as his days, that " the Italians 

 use several herbs for sallets, which are not yet, or 

 have not been but lately used in England, viz. selleri 

 (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, he adds, "curled endive blanched is 

 much used beyond seas, and for a raw sallet, seemed 

 to excel lettuce itself/' Now this journey was un- 

 dertaken no longer ago than in the year 1663. 



LETTER LXXX. 



TO THE SAME. 



SELBORNE, February 12, 1778- 



" Forte puer, comitum seductus ab agmine fido, 

 Dixerat, ecquis adest ? et, adest, responderat echo. 

 Hie stupet ; utque aciern partes divisit in omnes ; 

 Voce, veni, clamat magna. Vocat ilia vocantem." 



DEAR SIR, 



IN a district so diversified as this, so full of hol- 

 low 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 me- 

 lody 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, 



