OF SELBORNE. 



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till at length it would descend quite behind 

 the object again ; and so nightly more and 

 more to the westward. 



LETTER XLV. 



TO THE SAME. 



Selborne. 



^ — ^ Miagire videbis 

 " Sub pedibus terrain, et descendere montibus omos." 



When I was a boy I used to read, with 

 astonishment and implicit assent, accounts 

 in Baker s Chronicle of walking hills and 

 travelling mountains. John Philips, in his 

 Cyder, alludes to the credit that was given 

 to such stories with a delicate but quaint 

 vein of humour peculiar to the author of 

 the Splendid Shilling, 



" I nor advise, nor reprehend, the choice 



" Of Mar del/ Hill ; the apple no where finds 



" A kinder mould : yet 'tis unsafe to trust 



" Deceitful ground : who knows but that once more 



