NATURAL HISTORY 
tiones illcE fonoruin, et confonantiariim euntque, redeuntque 
" per phantafiam : — cum nihil tale relinqui poffit ex modu- 
*' lationibus avium, quae, quod non funt perinde a nobis 
" imitabiles, non poffunt perinde internam facultatem com- 
movere." Gaffendus in Vita Te'irejl'i'i. 
This curious quotation flrikes me much by fo well reprefenting 
my own cafe, and by defcribing what I have fo often felt, but 
never could fo well exprefs. When I hear fine mufic I am 
haunted with palTages therefrom night and day ; and efpecially at 
firft waking, which, by their importunity, give me more un- 
eafinefs than pleafure : elegant leiTons ftill teafe my imagination, 
and recur irrefiftibly to my recoUedlion at feafons, and even when 
I am defirous of thinking of more ferious matters. 
I am, &c. 
