like rising opposite to it, at a few hundred yards 

 distance ; and perhaps success might be the easier 

 insured could some canal, lake, or stream, intervene. 

 From a seat at the centrum phonicuin he and his 

 friends might amuse themselves sometimes of an 

 evening with the prattle of this loquacious nymph ; 

 of whose complacency and decent reserve more may 

 be said than can with truth of every individual of 

 her sex ; since she is " always ready with her vocal 

 response, but never intrusive : " — 



" — — — — — — quae nee reticere loquenti, 



Nee prior ipsa loqui didieit resonabilis echo." 



The classic reader will, I trust, pardon the follow- 

 ing lovely quotation, so finely describing echoes, and 

 so poetically accounting for their causes : — 



" Quae ben^ quom videas, rationem reddere possis 

 Tute tibi atque aliis, quo paeto per loea sola 

 Saxa pareis formas verborum ex ordine reddant, 

 Palanteis comites quom monteis inter opaeos 

 Qugerimus, et magna disperos voee ciemus. 

 Sex etiam, aut septem loca vidi reddere voces 

 Unam quom jaeeres : ita coUes collibus ipsis 

 Verba repulsantes iterabant dicta referre. 

 Haec loea capripedes Satyros Nymphasque tenere 

 Finitimi fingunt, et Faunos esse loquuntur ; 

 Quorum noctivago strepitu, ludoque joeanti 

 Adfirmant volgo taciturna silentia rumpi, 

 Chordarumque sonos fieri, duleeisque querelas, 

 Tibia quas fundit digitis pulsata canentum : 

 Et genus agricolum XzXh sentiscere, quom Pan 

 Pinea semiferi capitis velamina quassans, 

 Unco ssepe labro calamos percurrit hianteis, 

 Fistula silvestrem ne cesset fundere musam." 



(Lucretius, lib. iv. 1. 576.) 

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