224 CORRESPONDENCE OF GILBERT WHITE 



'Eruditissimi viri Johannis Raij, A.M. 



Quicqiiid mortale fuit, 

 Hoc in angusto tumalo reconditum est. 



At Scripta 



Non una continet Regio : 

 Et Fama undequaque celeberrima 



Vetat mori." 

 It concludes 



f( Sic bene latuit, bene vixit Vir beatus, 

 Quern Prsesens ./Etas colit, Postera mirabitur." 



See the ' Memorials of Ray/ edited by the late Dr. Lankester, including 

 Dr. Derham's ' Remains and Life of Ray.' Printed for the Ray Society, 

 1846. T. B.] 



Extract from Dr. Townsorfs Journal of his Tour into Italy, fyc. 

 1768, 1769. 



"May 27 (1769), to Frescati [from Rome] 14 m.j about half way is 

 Pontano, famous for a good dairy and belonging to the Borghese family. 

 Here it was that Mr. Morison, once dining in the farmhouse in the large 

 room swarming with swallows, was desired not to disturb them, because 

 they cut the air and rendered it wholesome, as the people of the family 

 alledged to him." 



6 8e KaXovpevos aiyo&rjXrjs O~TI p.ev opeivoS) TO de peyedos KOTTVCpov pev 

 fiiKpco /ieto>i>, KOKKvyos 6' \aTT(ov. TiKTi p.ev ovv coa Svo T] Tpia TO TrXetcrroi/, 

 TO Se rjOos eo~Ti /3Xa<tKos*. 6r)\aei de Tas aiyas Trpoo-TreTopevos' 66ev K.CLI 

 Tovvop eiXrjfpe. (pao-i 8', orav 6r)\acr7j TOP pao-dov a.7roo~(3evvvo-6ai re, KCU TTJV 

 aiya a7roTV(p\ovo~6ai' GO~TL 8' OVK O^VCHTTOS rrjs rjfjiepas, aXXa TTJS VVKTOS jSXevret. 



ABISTOT. Hist. Animal. 1. ix. cap. xxx. 



Quern caprimulgum appellant, avis rnontana est, magnitudine paulo 

 major quam merula, minor quam cuculus, moribus mollior. Parit ova 

 duo, aut tria cum plurima. Sugit caprarum ubera advolans, unde nonien 

 accepit. Cum suxerit, uber extingui, capramque excsecari aiunt. Parum 

 clare interdiu videt, sed noctu perspicax est. 



* The Latin translator, meaning, I suppose, to express this clause, has 

 "moribus mollior," and introduces it as if it followed " eXarrojy," a paulo 

 major quam merula, minor quam cuculus, moribus mollior," which may 

 be true : but besides the deranging of the text, which is the same in 

 other editions, I fear this is not the sense of the Greek j for /SXajaKos seems 

 rather an impeachment of the understanding than an encomium on the 

 gentleness of our friend the Caprimulgus. And yet r)0os, again, belongs 



