, selleri (celery), which is nothing else
but the sweet smallage; the young shoots whereof, with a little of
the head of the root cut off, they eat raw with oil and pepper.' And
further he adds 'curled endive blanched is much used beyond seas;
and, for a raw sallet, seemed to excel lettuce itself.' Now this
journey was undertaken no longer ago than in the year 1663.
I am, etc.
Letter XXXVIII
To The Honourable Daines Barrington
Forte puer, comitum seductus ab agmine fido,
Dixerat, ecquis adest ? et, adest, responderat echo.
Hic stupet; utque aciem partes divisit in omnes;
Voce, veni, clamat magna. Vocat illa vocantem.
Selborne, Feb. 12, 1778.
Dear Sir,
In a district so diversified as this, so full of hollow vales, and
hanging woods, it is no wonder that echoes should abound. Many
we have discovered that return the cry of a pack of dogs, the notes
of a hunting-horn, a tunable ring of bells, or the melody of birds,
very agreeably: but we were still at a loss for a polysyllabical,
articulate echo, till a young gentleman, who had parted from his
company in a summer evening walk, and was calling after them,
stumbled upon a very curious one in a spot where it might least be
expected.
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