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till at length it would descend quite behind 

 the object again ; and so nightly more and 

 more to the westward. 



LETTER XLV. 



TO THE SAME. 



SELBORNE 



" Mugire videbis 



" Sub pedibus terram, et descendere montibus ornos." 



WHEN I was a boy I used to read, with 

 astonishment and implicit assent, accounts 

 in Bakers Chronicle of walking hills and 

 travelling mountains. John Philips, in his 

 Cyder, alludes to the credit that was given 

 to such stories with a delicate but quaint 

 vein of humour peculiar to the author of 

 the Splendid Shilling. 



" I nor advise, nor reprehend the choice 



" Of Marclty Hill; the apple no where finds 



" A kinder mould : yet 'tis unsafe to trust 



" Deceitful ground : who knows but that once m,ore 



