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engaging numbers, that I cannot refrain from quoting the passage ; 

 an&John Dryde.n has rendered it so happily in our language, that 

 without farther excuse I shall add his translation also : 



" Qua/is spelnncd subitb comnwta Colut/tba, 

 Cui domus, ct dulces latebroso in pumice nidi, 

 Ferttir in arva volans, plausumque extenita p<:nnis 

 Dat tecio iugentem max aerc lapsa quieto, 

 Radit Her liquidum, celeres neqne com/novel a/as." 



" As when a dove her rocky hold forsakes, 

 Rons' d, in a fright her sounding wings she shakes ; 

 The cavern rings with clattering: out she flies, 

 And leaves her callow care, and cleaves the skies ; 

 At first she flutters : but at length she springs 

 To smoother flight , and shoots upon her wings." 



Note. Curiosa felicitas, indeed a very odd way of translating a 

 passage happily, except the four last words, and it wants five only 

 of having as many faults as words, and many of them gross and 

 glaring faults. S. T. C. (Of course, I leave the " in " " with " 

 "and" "she" "her" "a" and "the" out of the reckoning.) 



Vol. I. p. 239 [200]. Let me hear from your own observation 

 whether skylarks do not dust. I think they do ; and if they do 

 whether they wash also. 



Note. Skylarks dust, but not wash. 



Vol. I. p. 292 [239]. Thus is instinct in animals, taken the least 

 out of its way, an undistinguishing, limited faculty ; and blind to 

 every circumstance that does not immediately respect self-preser- 

 vation, or lead at once to the propagation or support of their 

 species. 



Note. This is an inadequate explanation. I would rather say, 

 that instinct is the wisdom of the species, not of the individual ; 

 but that let any circumstance occur regularly through many genera- 

 tions that then its every-time-felt inconvenience would by little and 

 little act through the blind sensations on the organic frame of the 

 animals, till at length they were born wise in that respect, and by 

 the same process do they lose their not //mate but <wmate wisdom : 



