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Dublin to Galway, Limerick, Killarney, Cork, Waterford, anrl home by 

 Milford Haven); in the autumn of 1838, the east of Scotland (going 

 by sea to Edinburgh, thence by Montrose to i^berdeen aixl Braemar, 

 and by Dundee and Perth back to Edinburgh, and thence to Newcastle 

 by sea); and in the same season he made the tour of the Westmoreland 

 and Cumberland Lakes, visited the salt mines of Cheshire, and went 

 through Derbyshire and Warwickshire. The winter of 1839 he spent 

 at Torquay, in Devonshire, in consequence of the ilhaess of his mother 

 and youngest sister. In 1840 he made no excursion, in consequence of 

 his mother's death in September. In 1841 he made a tour of the Isle 

 of Wight (he had previously passed a winter, 1833-4, in the south of 

 the island), and afterwards in North Devon, In July, 1843, he spent 

 ten days in excursions about High Force, near Barnard Castle, in 

 Durham] and in October, took a run into Monmouthshire and Hereford- 

 shire. In 1843 he went again to Ireland, going by Cork (where he 

 spent a fortnight at the meeting of the British Association, in August), 

 and from thence making a three weeks' tour with Dr. Babington, and 

 then spending ten days at Killarney, and afterwards passsing by Galway 

 to Sligo, Dei-ry, the Giant's Causeway to Belfast, and thence to Dublin, 

 where he remained two months and a half studying, returning to London 



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the middle of January, 1844. In the autumn of 1844 he again visited 

 the Lake district of Cumberland, spending upwards of a month there ; 

 and then went on by Newcastle and Berwick, and Dryburgh, Melrose 

 and Abbotsford, to Edinburgh, whence (on December 3rd) he w^ent to 

 Glasgow for three or four days, and returned on the 7th of December, 

 He remained at Edinburgh for the purposes of study to the 8th of April, 

 1845, and then returned to London, taking Chatsworth again on his way. 

 In June and July, 1845, he took a short turn in Norfolk and round by 

 Chatsworth again. 



" On the 4th of January, 1846, he left England, via Southampton, on 

 his Indian tour. On arriving at Bombay, he found he should be too 

 late for crossing the plains to the Himalaya that season, and accord- 

 ingly determined to go at once to Java, and up the coast of China. He 

 arrived at Batavia about the 20th of June, and after making excursions 

 about the island, returned there on the 24th of July; and on the 27th 

 went by a steamer to Singapore, which he reached on the 1st of August. 

 I have no dates or particulars here of his proceedings after this time, and 

 can only speak from my recollections. He was to leave Singapore by 



