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Heliopolis ; and, lastly, to the petrified forest. He afterwards made a 
voyage to Damietta, and the Lake Menzeleh, where he searched, but in 
vain, for the Papyrus, still reported, though on questionable authority, 
to flourish in that spot as of yore. 
August 10th, Dr. Bromfield’s letter is dated from Jaffa, the ancient 
Joppa, in Syria. August 15th, from Jerusalem. A postscript to that 
letter announces his future plans :—* I propose going to the Dead Sea 
and Jordan, of which I had a fine view, on the 15th, from the summit 
of the Mount of Olives; to Hebron and Bethlehem; then to Damascus 
(through Samaria and Galilee), where I intend introducing myself to 
General Guyon, now a pasha at Damascus, whose mother and brother 
I knew so well; thence to Bairout, over the Lebanon, taking the ruins 
of Baalbec in my way. Dismissing Saad (his servant) at Bairout, I 
shall take the first steamer for Smyrna and Constantinople. I shall 
try my utmost to leave Constantinople for Southampton on the 29th 
of September, so as to be home the middle of October.” 
The last letter he appears to have written home was from “ Bairout, 
Syria, September 22nd” (received at Ryde, October 18th). In that he | 
says, * I am momentarily expecting Dr. Bialloblotsky, to arrange for 
our journey to Damascus and Baalbec, which will conclude my Syrian — 
travels; after which every successive day’s journey will bring me 
nearer to dear Old England. I have had quite as much as I wish of 
Eastern travel; enough to furnish many pleasing reminiscences of past 
events and distant scenery. But I am not sorry my long pilgrimage 
is drawing to a close; and that, with God's blessing, I shall soon re- 
turn to enjoy the smiles and comforts of * home, sweet home.’”—Man _ 
indeed proposes, but God disposes. Only seventeen days after this - 
letter, so full of thankfulness for the past and of hope for the future, - 
was written, and nine days before it was received in England, our - 
excellent friend breathed his last at Damascus. It was on the 9th of 
October, four days after his arrival there from Baalbec, that he expired. - 
He was seized with typhus of the most malignant description. Every- - 
thing that could possibly be done for him, both by medicine and at- 
tendance, was effected, there being two European doctors of great - 
celebrity resident at Damascus. No servant, however, could be pro- - 
cured to wait upon him, owing to superstition and fear; but Mr. G. 2 
Moore, an English traveller, and Mr. James Barnett of the American - 
Mission, appear to have been unremitting in their kindness and atten- — 
tions. He became sensible three hours before his death, and requested — 
