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Yorkshire. The house looks small on the outside, 
and yet the gallery is 200 feet long. The drawing- 
room is one of the most elegant anywhere to be 
seen, with Gobelin tapestry made on purpose, and 
chairs of the same. French glasses throughout 
the house. Every thing in the highest style of 
decoration. The library an octagon of 30 feet. 
Miss Johnes, though not above ten years of age, 
has taken a wonderful turn for botany and ento- 
mology. She has made out almost every* plant 
within her reach that is in Flora Londinensis, or 
English Botany, and has the latter almost by heart. 
She longs to botanize in a chalk country. She is 
almost equally fond of insects, and her whole de- 
light is to walk with me about the woods, searching 
for mosses and insects, patiently attending to every 
thing I say, and telling me all her observations, 
doubts, queries, &c. This is the more extraordi- 
nary, as she has had no companion till now. Her 
mother indeed is fond of a garden and greenhouse, 
and her father encourages her by all the means in 
his power; but it is a remarkable instance of early 
ardour. Miss Johnes is also a capital musician. 
I have been rather disappointed hitherto as to 
botany in Wales. What I have observed are the 
common plants of hilly, not alpine countries, and 
not a great variety of them. Mosses and Lichens 
are plentiful, but they are chiefly of the tree kind, 
yet no filamentost. L. late-virens, glomuliferus, 
scrobiculatus, sylvaticus, resupinatus, plumbeus, are 
common. I have found one specimen of perlatus 
in fructification. Hypericum dubium of Leers, 
