28 NATURAL HISTORY 



LETTER XXXVIII. 



TO THE SAME. 



" Forte puer, comitum seductas ab agmine fido, 

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

 " Hie stupet ; utque aciem partes divisit in omnes ; 

 " Voce, veni, clamat magna. Vocal ilia vocantem.*' 



DEAR SIR; SELBORNE, Feb. 12, 1778. 



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 



