224 CORRESPONDENCE OF GILBERT WHITE 



• Eruditissimi viri Jobannis Raij, A.M. 



Quicquid mortale fuit, 



Hoc in angusto tumulo reconditum est. 



At Scripta 



Non una continet Regie : 



Et Fania undequaque celeberriiua 



Vetat mori." 



It concludes 



" Sic bene latuit, bene vixit Vir beatus, 

 Quern Prtesens ^Etas colit, Postera mirabitur." 



See tbe ' Memorials of Ray,' edited by the late Or. Lankester, including 

 Dr. Derhani's ' Remains and Life of Ray.' Printed for the Ray Society, 

 1846.— T. B.] 



Extract from Dr. Town&orfs Journal of his Tour into Italy, $c. 



1768, 1769. 



'" May 27 (1769), to Prescati [from Rome] 14 m.; about half way is 

 Pontano, famous for a good dairy and belonging to the Borghese family. 

 Here it was that Mr. Morison, once dining in the farmhouse in the large 

 room swarming with swallows, was desired not to disturb them because 

 they cut the air and rendered it wholesome, as the people of the family 

 alledged to him."' 



6 Se naXovpevos aiyodrfXrjs ecrri pev opeivos, to 8e peyedos KOTTV(pov pev 

 piKpco pei^u>v, KOKKvyos 8' tXaTTav. TiKTii [x(v ovv aa 8vo t) rpia to TtXeicrTov, 

 to 8e t]fios icrTi fikaictKos*. 6'iXa^ei Se Tas aiya; irpoancTopevos' 66ev Kai 

 Tovvop ei\r](f)€. (pacri 8', 6rav OrjXaar] tov paadov mroa-fievvvadai re, kol ttjv 

 aiya aTTOTvcpXovadai.' eari 8' ovk o^vcottos tt]s fjpepas, aXXa tijs vvktos jiXenei. 



Aeistot. Hist. Animal. 1. ix. cap. xxx. 



Quern caprimulgum appellant, avis montana est, magnitudine paulo 

 major quam merula, minor quam cuculus, moribus mollior. Parit ova 

 duo, aut tria cum plurima. Sugit caprarum ubera advolans, unde nomen 

 accepit. Cum suxerit, uber extingui, capramque excascari aiunt. Parum 

 clare interdiu videt, sed noctu perspicax est. 



The Latin translator, meaning, I suppose, to express this clause, has 

 "moribus mollior," and introduces it as if it followed " eAarrcoiv' "paulo 

 major quam merula, minor quam cuculus, moribus mollior," which may 

 be true : but besides the deranging of the text, which is the same in 

 other editions, I fear this is not the sense of the Greek ; for ftXaiciKos seems 

 rather an impeachment of the understanding than an encomium on the 

 gentleness of our friend the Caprimidgus. And yet rjdos, again, belongs 



