Crossword-Solution: ALTUM 5 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 7

Small patch, this of Moyland, size not given; "was bought," says he, "in 1695, by Friedrich afterwards First King, from the Family of Spaen,"--we once knew a Lieutenant Spaen, of those Dutch regions,--"and was named a Royal Mansion ever thereafter." Who lived in it; what kind of thing was it, is it? ALTUM SILENTIUM, from Busching and mankind.

Altum, a German forester, who wrote a very interesting book about animals injurious to our forests, also gives many facts showing the immense importance of natural checks.

Altum also mentions the bird-enemies of the pine-moth, and the immense amount of its eggs destroyed by foxes; but he adds that the parasitic fungi which periodically infest it are a far more terrible enemy than any bird, because they destroy the moth over very large areas at once.

Moreover, there was altum silentium, and I really did not know what to do from cold, headache, and weariness.

And yet if I should enumerate divers of his speeches, as I did those of Alexander, they are truly such as Solomon noteth, when he saith, _Verba sapientum tanquam aculei_, _et tanquam clavi in altum defixi_: whereof I will only recite three, not so delectable for elegancy, but admirable for vigour and efficacy.