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For myself I did not mind waiting till one o'clock, 

 that I might make myself look a little decent, though 

 I had not the means here of improving my appearance 

 much ; as to my boots, and indeed all my habiliments, 

 thev were much in the condition of those of the Gib- 



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eonites when they made their visit to Joshua. Wrote 

 a little, went out to take a look at the Castle of Chil- 

 lon, which is near, - - the building itself not remark- 

 able, but the situation fine. . . . 



Took the steamboat in the afternoon ; passed Vevay, 

 Lausanne, etc., etc., and after traversing the whole 

 length of this much-admired, most beautiful lake, ar- 

 rived at Geneva just at sunset ; having accomplished 

 my pedestrian tour (long to be remembered) in ten 

 days (excluding the Sunday). . . . 



GENEVA, 19th July. 



My mornings, between eleven and four, have been 

 constantly and fully occupied at De Candolle's. 

 Earlier in the morning I have spent much time with 

 Mr. Duby, 1 a botanist and clergyman, one of the 

 government pastors here, and it is said almost the 

 only one who is a pious man. I have yet to pack up 

 a box of my gatherings and to send to the roulage to 

 be forwarded to New York. I have taken lodgings, 

 for my short stay here, with the Wolff family, very 

 pious and excellent people, who are pretty well known 

 to many persons of the same class in New York. One 

 of the daughters is the wife of Dr. Buck, 2 and I be- 

 lieve your dear mother is acquainted with her. After 

 dinner I have sometimes made little excursions in the 



1 Jean Etienne Dnby, 1797-1885 ; long one of the Genevese clergy 

 and a botanist and colleague of Augustin Pyramus de Candolle. 

 ' 2 Dr. Gurdon Buck. 



