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neglected every pursuit that did not lead to war or tend 

 to the pleasure of the chase. 



It was not till gentlemen took up the study of horti- 

 culture themselves, that the knowledge of gardening 

 made such hasty advances. Lord Cobham, Lord Ila, 

 and Mr. Waller of Beaconsfield, were some of the first 

 people of rank that promoted the elegant science of 

 ornamenting without despising the superintendence of 

 the kitchen quarters and fruit walls. 



A remark made by the excellent Mr. Ray, in his Tour 

 of Europe, at once surprises us, and corroborates what 

 has been advanced above ; for we find him observing, 

 so late as his days, that " the Italians use several herbs 

 for sallets, which are not yet or have not been but 

 lately used in England, viz. selleri (celery) which is 

 nothing else but the sweet smallage ; the young shoots 

 whereof, with a little of the head of the root cut off, they 

 eat raw with oil and pepper." And farther, he adds, 

 "curled endive blanched is much used beyond seas; 

 and, for a raw sallet, seemed to excel lettuce itself." 

 Now, this journey was undertaken no longer ago than 

 in the year 1G63. 



I am, &c. 



LETTER XXXVIII. 



TO THE SAME. 



" Forte puer, comitum seductus ab agmine fido, 

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

 Hie stupet; utque acieni partes divisit in omnes, 

 Voce, veni, clamat magna. Vocat ilia vocantem." 



DEAR SIR, SELBORNE, Feb. 12, 1778. 



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, 



