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now completed my allotted month, and really con- 
scientiously meant to have gone away this day ; but 
Signor Jacomo returned only on Tuesday last, and 
he has brought so many shells, corals, &c., that I 
cannot go without looking them over a little; be- 
sides, I did not choose to leave Genoa so soon after 
his arrival. But this is not all. Next week there is 
a vacation of five or six days in the public business, 
and these are to be spent by the family at their 
country-house; they pressed me so much to pass 
this interval with them in studying shells, insects, 
&c. in the museum, and especially the request of 
Mrs. Theresina had such an effect, that I could not 
resist. We go to Cornigliano on Monday after- 
noon, to stay till Saturday, after which I shall set 
off for Turin. Indeed I am more and more charmed 
with this amiable family. Signor Jacomo is the 
most good-natured cheerful man that can be. Itis 
a constant joke against him that he cannot speak 
my name, but calls me Smt, or Smzsh; though his 
wife takes great pains to tutor him. I spent Satur- 
day and Sunday last at Castagna, a country lodging 
of Mr. Caffarena, whose wife is an English woman, 
worthy of her country: his sons are very amiable 
young men; I am quite at home with them. These 
are all my acquaintances. Mr. Ippolito Durazzo 
wants me to spend a whole summer here for bota- 
nical purposes; to come in February, and stay till 
October. He takes delight in showing me a room 
in his new house, which he calls mine, and tells me 
how it shall be fitted up to receive me; but this 
scheme is next to impracticable. Pratolongo is 
