LETTER XLIV. 



To the same. 



Monstrent 



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 <%uid tantum Oceano proper ent se tingere soles 

 Hyberni ; vel qu<s tardis mora noctibus obstet" 



SELBORNE. 1 



NTLEMEN who have outlets might contrive 

 to make ornament subservient to utility : a pleas- 

 ing eye-trap might also contribute to promote 

 science : an obelisk in a garden or park might be 

 both an embellishment and an heliotrope. 



Any person that is curious, and enjoys the 

 advantage of a good horizon, might, with little 

 trouble, make two heliotropes ; the one for the winter, the other for 

 the summer solstice : and the two erections might be constructed 



1 This letter has no date of time, but one of place only. It, and most of 

 those which follow it, were not, I believe, ever really written to Barrington. 

 They are notes called forth by the subjects of the previous series. Many of them 

 are not dated at all : these, I fancy, were written merely to embody other 

 important observations not alluded to in the genuine correspondence. Their style 

 is accordingly more "literary" and less spontaneous: they are therefore of far 

 inferior interest and importance to the actual letters. ED. 



