LETTER XLV. 



To the same. 



" . . . . Mugire videbis 

 Sub pedibus terram, et descendere montibus ornos." 



SELBORNE. 



HEN I was a boy I used to read, with astonish- 

 ment and implicit assent, accounts in "Baker's 

 Chronicle " of walking hills and travelling moun- 

 tains. 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 

 O/ Marc ley Hill ; the apple no where finds 

 A kinder mould ; yet 'fzs unsafe to trust 

 Deceitful ground: who knows but that once more 



