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selleri (celery), wWch is notliing else but the sweet small- 

 age, the young shoots -whereof, with a little of the head of 

 the root cut off, they eat .raw with oU and pepper." And 

 further, he adds, " curled endive blanched is much used 

 beyond seas, and for a raw saUet, seemed to excel lettuce 

 itself." Now this journey was undertaken no longer ago 

 than ia the year 1663. 



LETTEE LXXX. 



TO THE SAME. 



Selbobne, Feb. 12, 1778. 



" Forte puer, comitum seductus ab agmine fido, 

 Dixei-at, ecquia adest.^ et, adeat, responderat echo. 

 Hie stupet ; utque aciem partes divisit in omncs ; 

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



Deae Sie, — 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 stiU at a loss for a polysyllabical articulate echo, tUl 

 a young gentleman, who had parted from his company in a 

 summer evening walk, and was caUing 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 boys ; but, 

 repeating his trials in several languages, and finding his 

 respondent to be a very adroit polyglot, he then discerned 

 the deception. 



This echo, in an evening before rural noises cease, 

 would repeat ten syllables most articulately and distinctly, 

 especially if quick dactyls were chosen. The last syllables of 



" Tityre, tu patulee recubans " 



were as audibly and inteUigibly returned as the first ; and 



