of Selborne 191 



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

 people of rank that promoted the elegant science of 

 ornamenting witliout 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., se/Ieri (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 further 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 1663. 



I am, etc. 



LETTER XXXVIIT 



TO THE HONOURABLE DAINES BARRINGTON 



" Fort^ puer, comitum seducfus ab aGjmine fido, 

 Dixerat, ecqnis adest ? et, adest, rcsponderat echo. 

 Hie stupet ; iitque aciein partes divisit in omnes ; 

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



Selborne, Feb. 12, 17 78. 



Dear Sir, 

 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, a tunable 

 ring of bells, or the melody of birds, very agreeably : but 

 we were still at a loss for a polysyllabical, articulate echo, 

 till a young gentleman, who had parted from his com- 

 pany in a summer evening walk, and was calling after 

 them, stumbled upon a very curious one in a spot where 

 it might least be expected. At first he was much sur- 



