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LETTER XLV 



TO THE SAME 



" Mugire videbis 



SELBORNE. 



Sub pedibus terram, et descendere montibus ornos." 



WHEN I was a boy I used to read, with astonishment and 

 implicit assent, accounts in Baker's Chronicle of walking 

 hills and travelling mountains. 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. 



" I nor advise, nor reprehend the choice 

 Of Marcley Hill ; the apple no where finds 

 A kinder mould ; yet 'tis unsafe to trust 

 Deceitful ground : who knows but that once more 

 This mount may journey, and his present site 

 Forsaken, to thy neighbour's bounds transfer 

 Thy goodly plants, affording matter strange 

 For law debates ! " 



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