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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 adds : 

 " curled endive blanched is much used beyond seas ; and for 

 a raw sallet, seemed to excell lettuce itself." Now this jour- 

 ney was undertaken no longer ago than in the year 1663. 



I am, etc. 

 NOTES 



1 See Lev. xiii., xiv. G. W. 



2 Viz., six hundred bacons, eighty carcasses of beef, and six hundred mut- 

 tons. G. W. 



8 " In monasteries the lamp of knowledge continued to burn, however 

 dimly. In them men of business were formed for the state : the art of 

 writing was cultivated by the monks; they were the only proficients in 

 mechanics, gardening, and architecture." DALRYMPLE'S Annals of Scot- 

 land. G. W. 



LETTER XXXVIII 



SELBORNE, Feb. 12th, 1778. 



" Forte puer, comitum seductus ab agmine fido, 

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

 Hie stupet ; utque aciem partes divisit in omnes ; 

 Voce, veni, clamat magna. Vocat ilia vocantem." 1 



DEAR SIR, 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 much surprised, and could not be persuaded 

 but that he was mocked by some boy; but repeating his trials 

 in several languages, and finding his respondent to be a very 

 adroit polyglot, he then discerned the deception. 



This echo in an evening, before rural noises cease, would 





