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(a thing of Ly-gone ages, now quite an extinctum genus) 

 supplied with a iK)rtmantoau as the more convenient vehicle. 



**0n his return he gave a very unfavourable report of the 

 Metropolis, but per conti-a said there was one gi*eat eomfoi*t 

 there indeed, viz. that he could be shaved everi/ day instead of 

 wearing his beftrd from Saturday to Saturday, on which day 

 alone when he rode into Wareham market was he relieved 

 of that encumbrance^ (as it was then thought, now tempora 

 mutantur). 



** I cannot precisely date this event. We lived at Corfe from 

 May, 1800, till October, 1810, and my belief is that it must 

 have been about 1805 — 6 or 7. Some years before this he 

 had lived at a fann in the neighbourhood of Ceme, in this 

 County, (Dorset), and there he first practised vaccination on 

 his own children. Fever ran high Vith his patients, and he 

 called in Mr. Trowbridge the medical man at Ceme, (whom I 

 full well remember in later years when tee lived near that 

 place,) and told him what he had done. Trowbridge said, 

 "you have done a bold thing, but I will get you through it if 

 I can" — treated it as fever and was successful. I should have 

 said that old Jesty not being equipped with a lancet, per- 

 formed the operation with a stocking needle! ! " 



Believe me truly yours, 



J. M. COLSON. 

 Kev. F. F. Tract. 



In closing these papers, do I not pay a fair tribute to the 

 revived Church feeling and Antiquarian taste of the age, in 

 expressing the hope that 'ere long a successful e£fort will be 

 made to restore this ancient structure? I would add the 

 suggestion, that whenever the work be undertaken, great care 

 and study will be needed to preserve the existing archseological 

 features intact, to renew those impaired through the decay of 

 ago, and as far as possible to restore what rude hands have 

 ppoiled ia touching. 



