OF SELBORNE. 
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P. S. The claffic reader will, I trufl, pardon the following- 
lovely quotation, fo finely defcribing echoes, and fo poetically 
accounting for their caufes from popular fuperftition : 
*' Quae bene quom videas, rationem reddere poffis 
" Tute tibi atque aliis, quo pafto per loca fola 
" Saxa pareis formas verborum ex ordine reddant, 
" Palanteis comites quom monteis inter opacos 
" Qusrimus, et magna difperfos voce ciemus. 
" Sex etiam, aut feptem loca vidi reddere voces 
" Unam quom jaceres : ita colles collibus ipils 
" Verba repulfantes iterabant difta referre. 
*' Hsc loca capripcdes Satyros, Nymphafque tenere 
*• Finitimi fiagnnt, et Faunos effe loquuntur; 
" Quorum nodlivago ftrepitu, ludoque jocanti 
" Adfirmant volgo taciturna filentia rumpi, 
" Chordarumque Ibnos fi.-ri, dulceifque querelas, 
" Tibia quas fuadit digitis pulfata canentum : 
" Et genus agrlcolum late fentifcere, quom Pan 
'* Pinea femiferi capitis velamina quafians, 
" Unco faepe labro calamos percurrit hianteis, 
Fiftula filveflrcm ne cciTct I'undere mufam." 
Lucretius, Lib. iv. 1, 576, 
LETTER 
