

LETTER XLV. 



To the same. 



" . . . . Ahigire videbis 

 Sub pedibus terrain, et descendere montibus ornos" 



SELBORNE. 



HEN I was a boy I used to read, with 

 astonishment and implicit assent, accounts 

 in " Baker's 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." 



" / nor advise, nor reprehend the choice 

 Of Alarcley Hill ; the apple no where finds 

 A kinder mould; yet 'tis unsafe to trust 

 Deceitful ground : who knows but that once more 

 This mount may journey, and, his present site 

 Forsaken, to thy neighbour's bounds transfer 

 Thy goodly plants, affording matter strange 

 f*or law debates." 



But, when I came to consider better, I began to suspect 

 that though our hills may never have journeyed far, yet that 



