[3222] Virgil shared this belief: see Georg. ii. l. 299.
[3223] This may be true in some measure as to nitre, alum, and warm sea-water; but not so as to the shells of beans and pigeon-pease, which would make an excellent manure for it.
[3224] This, as Fée remarks, is not by any means impossible, nor, indeed, are any other of the cases mentioned in this paragraph, owing to some accidental circumstance.
[3225] See B. xxix. c. 29.
[3226] These stories can, of course, be only regarded as fabulous.
[3227] This may easily be accounted for, by the seed accidentally lodging in a crevice of the tree.
[3228] A.U.C. 600.
[3229] An exaggerated account merely of a land-slip.