BY EDWARD DOUBLED AY. £81 



about twenty feet square, with a counter on one side, and a 

 neat glass case at the back, containing, of course, sundry 

 decanters, &c. ; and besides this, a httle cabinet, with a glass 

 door, containing specimens of the brilliant crystals found in 

 the neighbourhood. There you will also see two little vases, 

 in which the wild flowers of the woods mingle with iheir 

 brothers from the garden, and often exceed them in beauty. 

 There is a beautiful stream of water always flowing from a 

 little pillar on the counter, and near this is a desk. On one 

 of the walls is Mitchell's map of the United States, supported 

 by two fine paintings by Italian artists; two or three other 

 paintings and prints decorate the walls, and you will sometimes 

 see a solitary chair in the middle of the room ; but there is no 

 sitting and smoking and drinking allowed here. 



My sitting room was of similar size, and decorated with 

 sundry good prints, also the usual allowance of chairs and 

 tables ; it had four windows — two in front, and two at the back 

 looking towards the woods. At night Mr. Goodhere and I 

 lighted up both these rooms, the bar-room windows in front, 

 and mine towards the woods. Sometimes we merely threw 

 up, sometimes took out the sashes. In addition to this, Mr. 

 Moore lighted up the window of his own private room up 

 stairs, looking towards the woods ; and I am indebted to him 

 and Mrs. Moore for the capture of some of my finest speci- 

 mens. Some nights they really swarmed, other nights they 

 were very scarce, and this without reference to the weather. 

 As to the proportion which the species bear to each other in 

 number, my boxes will speak ; I have not time. 



There is one remark I have to make as to the Geometrites 

 in England : we beat many hundreds out of the brushwood, 

 and some few Boai^mice on the trunks of trees. Here it is the 

 reverse; every thing sits on the trunks of the hemlocks, 

 birches, and maples ; scarcely any can be beaten out. Even 

 the species so exactly like our procellata sits on trunks. But 

 those little pure white beauties, and one or two others, were 

 occasionally beaten out. In going through the woods you 

 will often see a tall hemlock blown down, with a vast mass of 

 earth still adhering to its roots as they lay upturned. Here 

 you may be sure to find many Geometrites, but as they all fly 

 off at once, you are not so sure of catching them. Tortrices 

 and Tinece are scarce ; I saw very few. The Cramhi seem just 



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