ANGELS TIDE. 279 



OCT. 5. St. Placidus, abbot, &c. mm. a.d. 546. 

 St. Galla, widow, 6th cent. 



06s. St. Placidus is supposed to have gone to Sicily in 541, be- 

 ing about twenty six years of age. He there founded a monastery 

 at Messina. He had not lived many years in Sicily before a pagan 

 barbarian landed, and, out of hatred of the Christian name and the 

 religious profession of these servants of God, put St. Placidus and 

 his fellov7 monks to the sword, and burnt their monastery, about 

 the year 546. 



St. Galla was daughter of Syramachus the younger, a Roman 

 patrician. Trampling on the world and all its distractions, says 

 Butler, she dedicated herself to the service of heaven alone : it was 

 to this lady that Pulgeatius wrote his letters from his place of 

 banishment. 



Starlike Camomile Boltonia asteroides fl. 



Swallows are decidedly much less numerous, and only seen in 

 small numbers together. Congregations of Martins continue to be 

 seen, but even tlieir numbers are diminished if southerly winds 

 prevail. 



Autumn advances, and it is perhaps under the glowing and reful- 

 gent skies of the autumnal months that there is the greatest diversity 

 of appearance in the face of the landscape, of which the late Parson 

 Gilpin has given so many truly poetical, though at the same time 

 prosaic illustrations, in his excellent descriptive work on the Forest 

 Scenery. The following lines were addressed to him by a cotem- 

 porary amateur draughtsman of equal merit, though less known in 

 the arts : 



Sonnet to ir. G. 1792. 

 For thee ttie liveliest tints of Nature blow. 



For thee the blushes inild at opening moni. 

 To thee 'tis given to mark her evenini; glow, 



And with its vivid ray thy verse adorn. 

 Proceed, nor check thy fancy's warmest flow. 



Nor dread the chilling of a critic's scorn. 

 That fatal blast the maistrel ne'er >hall know 



Who under Nature's lenient hand is boru. 

 She with a parent's fondness goes before. 



And treads the path thy ready step pursues ; 

 Mark but the magic of her simple lore, 



Then tune the song for thy descriplive Muse, 

 For while to thee she opens every store, 

 'Twere churlish offered bounties to refuse. 



E. F. 



Damsons and BuUaces are now fully ripe, and are gathered. 

 Both these trees bear immense crops, and are used for an excellent 

 conserve, called Damson Cheese and BuUace Cheese. 



Nuts are nearly all gone, except those already picked and re- 

 served ; and most Walnuts are by' this time gathered and laid up. 



