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subject of great disappointment to Mr. Johnes, that 
your plans did not admit of a call upon him at Ha- 
fod; where, besides a very handsome place, situated 
amidst wilds of a character the most romantic and 
picturesque imaginable, and some curiosities in the 
botanic line, which might perhaps not have fallen 
within your observation elsewhere, you might have 
assured yourself of a most hearty and hospitable 
reception from people naturally kind, benevolent, 
and generous in their dispositions, and who would 
have felt a very particular satisfaction in contribu- 
ting to yours by every means in their power. I have 
seen Sir George Staunton, but not so much of him 
as I could have wished, enough however to know 
that he has not visited the capital of China without 
making such observations as cannot but prove 
highly interesting in the detail, and from which I 
flatter myself with the hope of much delight and 
information at some future time, when both of 
us are less occupied than at present. His little 
boy comes with his tutor to my garden every day, 
and goes over the collection of plants in a regular 
course, with a Linneus and a Hortus Kewensis 
in his hand. His memory is great, and his appre- 
hension quick and lively, so that there can be little 
doubt of his progress in that, or any other study to 
which he applies his mind. But I have fears for his 
health, which seems but ill established, and cannot, 
in my judgement, be benefited by those continued 
attentions to all that diversity of languages and 
sciences which the baronet is perpetually- pouring 
into him. The vessel is certainly of fine but of de- 
