head of the root cut off, they eat raw with oil and 

 pepper." And farther 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. 



Selborne, yaw. 8, 1778. 



LETTER LXXX. 



To THE Honourable Daines Barrington. 



" Forte puer, comiium seductus ab agmine fido, 

 Dixerat, Ecquis adest ? et, Adest, responderat Echo. 

 Hie stupet ; utque aciem partes divisit in omnes ; 

 Voce, Veni, elamat magna. Vocat ilia vocantem." 



(Ovid, Met. iii. 379,) 



" The youth being separated by chance from his faithful attendants, 

 calls aloud, ' Is there any one here?' and echo answers, ' Here.' He is 

 amazed, he casts his eyes on every side and calls with a loud voice, 

 * Come ! ' whereupon echo calls the youth who calls." 



~ " She can't begin, but waits for the rebound, 

 To catch his voice and then return the sound." 



(Dryden.) 



In a district so diversified as this, so full of hol- 

 low 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 



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