LETTER XXXV 



To the same. 



SELBORNE, Feb. i2tA, 1778. 

 1 Forte puer, comitum seductus ab agmine fido, 

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

 Hie stupet; utque aciem partes divisit in omnesj 

 Voce, veni, clamat magnd. Vocat ilia vocantem." 



EAR 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 re- 

 turn 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 



