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NATURAL HISTORY 
A remark made by the excellent Mr. Ray in his Tour of Europe 
at once furprifes us, and corroborates what has been advanced 
above ; for we find him obferving, fo late as his days, that " the 
" Italians \\(t feveral herbs for fallets, which are not yet or have 
" not been but lately ufed in England, \\z. feller i (celery) which is 
" nothing elfe but the fweet fmallage ; the j^oung (hoots whereof, 
with a little of the head of the root cut off, they eat raw with 
oil and pepper." and farther he adds " curled endive blanched 
" is ranch ufed beyond fcas ; and, for a raw fallet, feemed to excel 
" lettuce itfelf." Now this journey was undertaken no longer ago 
than in the year 1663. 
I am. Sec. 
LETTER XXXVIII. 
TO THE SAME. 
*' Forte puer, comitum feduftus ab agmlne fido, 
*' Dixerat, ecquis adeft? et, adeft, refponderat echo^ 
" Hie ftupet ; utque aciem partes divifit in omnes ; 
" Voce, veni, clamat magna. Vocat ilia vocantem." 
DEAR SIR, Seleorne, Feb, i», 177?. 
In a r'ifhrift fo diverfified as this, fo full of hollow vales and 
hanging woods, it is no wonder that echoes fliould abound. Many 
we have difcovered that return the cry of a pack of dogs, the notes 
Cf a huntipg-horn, a tunable ring of bells, or the melody of birds, 
very agreeably : but we were ftill at a lofs for a polyfyllabical, 
articulate 
