LETTER XXXVIII. 



To the same. 



SELBORNE, Feb. 12/4 1778. 



Forte puer, comitum seductus ab agmine fido^ 

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

 Hie stupet ; utque aciem partes divisit in omnes ; 

 Voce, vent, clamat magna. Vocat ilia vacant em" 



AR 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 



