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NATURAL HISTORY 
LETTER XLIV. 
TO THE SAME. 
Selborne, 
" — . — — — monftrent" 
*' Quid tantum Oceano properent fe tingere foles" 
" Hyberni ; vel qnx tardis mora nodibus obllet," 
G ENTLEMEN who havc outlcts might contrive to make orna- 
ment fubfervient to utility : a pleafing eye-trap might alfo contri- 
bute to promote fcience : an obehHc in a garden or park might 
be both an embellifliment and an heliotrope. 
Any perfon that is curious, and enjoys the advantage of a good 
horizon, might, with Uttle trouble, make two heliotropes ; the one 
for the winter, the other for the fummer folftice : and thefe two 
credions might be conflrucSted with very little expenfe ; for two 
pieces of timber frame-work, about ten or twelve feet high, and 
four feet broad at the bafe, and clofe lined with plank, would 
anfwer the purpofe. 
The eredlion for the former fhould, if poffible, be placed 
within fight of fome window in the common fitting parlour ; be- 
caufe men, at that dead feafon of the year, are ufually within 
doors at the clofe of the day ; while that for the latter might be 
fixed for any given fpot in the garden or outlet • whence the owner 
might contemplate, in a fine fummer's evening, the utmoft extent 
that the fun makes to the northward at the feafon of the longeft 
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