60 NATURAL HISTORY 



In a word, they never desisted from buf- 

 feting their adversary till they had torn 

 him in an hundred pieces. 



LETTER XLIV. 



TO THE SAME. 



SELBORNE. 



< nionstrent" 



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" Quid tantum Oceano properent se tingere soles" 

 " Hyberni ; vel quae tardis mora noctibus obstet." 



GENTLEMEN who have outlets might 

 contrive to make ornament subservient to 

 utility; a pleasing eye-trap might also 

 contribute to promote science : an obelisk 

 in a garden or park might be both an 

 embellishment and an heliotrope. 



Any person that is curious, and enjoys 

 the advantage of a good horizon, might, 

 with little trouble, make two heliotropes ; 

 the one for the Winter, the other for the 



