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CHAPTER X. 



Miscellaneous Letters from 1810 to 1816: — Sir Thomas Frank- 

 land.^-Mr. Walker. — Mr. W. Smith. — Dr. Waterhouse. — 

 Mrs. Cobbold.—Sir J. E. Smith. — Mr. J. Lee. — /. A. Pavon. — 

 Dr. Bigelow. — Sir Joseph Banks. — Dr. Tenore.—Mr. Repton. 

 — Rev. Mr. Walpole. — Baron Humboldt. — Professor DeCan- 

 dolle. — Duke of Bedford. 



From Sir Thomas Frank/and. 



Dear Sir, York, March 10, 1810. 



Though I have been confined by rheumatism 

 nearly since Christmas, I feel a fancy to write you 

 a gossiping letter. Till last summer I had never 

 crossed the Tweed ; but in July my son and I set 

 out to accept the Duke of Gordon's invitation, and 

 to see what we could in a month and a tour of 

 above nine hundred miles. 



We went by Newcastle to Dunbar and Edin- 

 burgh, where we stayed forty-eight hours, and were 

 enchanted. From thence to Stirling, Crieff, Perth, 

 Brechin, and turned off a few miles to Mr. Alex- 

 ander Brodie's at the Burn (purchased of Lord 

 Adam Gordon), where we stayed two days : then 

 to Aberdeen, and by Inverurie and Huntley to Gor- 

 don Castle. After six days, to James Brodie's for 

 two days. He very kindly went with us to Inver- 

 ness, where we hired four horses for the Highland 



