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OBSERVATIONS 



ON SOME PASSAGES IN 



MR, WHITE'S NATURAL HISTORY 



S E L B O R N E. 



VOL. I. 



Page 14. There is a village in the west of England 

 remarkable for the quantity it possesses of the " Comu 

 Aramonis." The name of it is Keynsham, between 

 Bath and Bristol, ' This has given rise to a fabulous 

 legend, which says that St. Keyna, from whom the 

 place takes its name, resided here in a solitary wood 

 full of venomous serpents, and her prayers converted 

 them into stones, which still retain their shape.' See 

 Espriella's Letters from England, v. iii. p. 362. 



P. S5. The description of the conflagration arising 



from the heath-Jircs here mentioned, reminds the scholar 



of the  stubble-burning' described in Virgil's Georgics, 



i. 84, and the commentary on the passage, by the ele- 



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