114 NATURAL HISTORY 
has rendered it fo happily in our language, that without farther 
cxcufe I lhall add his tranllation alfo. 
Quails fpelunca fubito commota Columba, 
" Cui domus, et dulces latebrofo in pumice nidi, 
" Fertur in arva volans, plaufumque exterrita pennis 
" Dat tefto ingentem — mox acre lapfa quieto, 
Radit iter liquidum, celeres neque commovet alas." 
" As when a dove her rocky hold forfakes, 
" Rous'd, in a fright her founding wings flie fhakes ; 
" The cavern rings with clattering: — out Ihe flies, 
" And leaves her callow care, and cleaves the fkies: 
" At firft fhe flutters: — but at length flie fprings 
"* To fmoother flight, and Ihoots upon her wings." 
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LETTER 
