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Broome. A great deal of what he said I was able to follow in 

 my mind, and by recalling my own experience to go over the 

 same ground. Many a time have I enjoyed a walk with Mr. 

 Broome himself, or with some member of his family, up that 

 drive of which Mr. Blomefield has spoken, and I remember 

 perfectly well the circumstances of its making — how it contributed 

 to the pleasure which Mr. Broome had in it, that it was a son 

 of his who had been to the Colonies and had come home who 

 engineered it and planned it for him. I have often gone round 

 Mr. Broome's garden with him ; I have been with him to 

 Bitton, and spent a day or half a day among Mr. Ellacombe's 

 remarkable collection of trees and plants ; for Mr. Ellacombe 

 is very fond of bringing home and domesticating rare and 

 wild English plants which are to be found in his garden, as well 

 as many exotics. It is fresh in my memory that I went up more 

 than once to Mr. Broome's room when he was confined to his 

 sofa, and as Mr. Blomefield has already told you, he was always 

 at his table with his work before him. I remember that summer 

 extremely well. He had been with his son to the Alps on a walking 

 tour, and keeping pace vrith the activity of the young man, had 

 done too much, and so he was for some months confined to his 

 house by a stiff'eiiing in the knee. I am sure that I shall be exf 

 pressing the sentiments of many when I say that Mr. Blomefield, 

 in the way in which he has brought his friend and our friend before 

 our minds in this memoir, has touched a very deep chord in 

 our feelings and carried us back to many very pleasant 

 reminiscences, though now tinged with sorrow and regret. 

 And we cannot but rejoice that our President, among his many 

 high acquirements and rich accomplishments, adds to it that 

 power of appreciating the value of his friends, which is one of 

 the most amiable and admirable qualities, and is thereby able to 

 do justice to his friend, though Mr. Broome is not the only one of 

 whom he could speak. He has indeed already spoken of some of 

 his acquaintances. I have had the pleasure of reading a 



