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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 

 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. 



XXXVIII. 



Forte puer, comitum seductus ab agmine fido, 

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

 Hie stupet ; utque aciem partes divisit in omnes ; 

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



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 company 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 surprised, 

 and could not be persuaded but that he was 

 mocked by some boy; but, repeating his trials 

 in several languages, and finding his respondent 



