SELBORNE. 



THE popu aritv of Gilbert White is so general, so durable; 

 and so well founded, that a pilgrimage 10 his tomb in his 

 native village o f Seiborne has become almost a necessary act of 

 devotion on the part of every lover of nature. The monument 

 which marks the resting-place of the bones of this most amiable, 

 fascinating, and instructive describer of the country, is very 

 humble ; it is a small plain stone, placed erect at the head of the 

 grave, of the following form, and with the following simple in- 

 scription : 



The mould and the sod which cover the mortal remains of this 

 illustrious man, have evidently been undisturbed from the 

 time that he was laid in the dust, as recorded on the little stone ; 

 and the grass upon his grave is as soft as velvet and as green as 

 an emerald, more finely emblematical of the gentleness yet fresh- 

 ness of his mind, and his ardent love of nature, than the most 

 sumptuous tomb which the art of the sculptor could have 

 executed. Within the church there is indeed a simple mural 



