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that is at all uncommon; few Ferns ; many Mosses 
and Alge. I have also found few insects. 
Mr. Caldwell is disappointed of his Guernsey 
expedition, and regrets disappointing you of Fuci. 
I wanted him to accompany me to Wales, but he 
could not. 
I have just been looking over a book of twenty- 
six drawings of shells, &c., done for M. Paris, at 
ten louis each. Mr. Johnes bought it for about 1301. 
His copies and manuscripts of Froissart are ex- 
tremely valuable; he is at work on an elaborate 
translation of that work, with notes. 
Your ever affectionate friend, 
J. E. Smiru. 
In the summer of 1796, the writer accompanied 
her husband to this romantic spot. In addition to 
the native beauty of the scene, a flock of peacocks 
from the neighbouring woods came frequently at 
early dawn, and placing themselves 
* Right against the eastern gate, 
Where the great sun begins his state,” 
displayed their gorgeous plumage between the bat- 
tlements of the mansion, and with their singular 
cry of Pavo! Pavo! enlivened and animated the 
otherwise silent solitude of the “ morning spread 
upon the mountains ;” nor can she ever hear the 
note unaccompanied with that peculiar sensation 
“Which out of things familiar, undesign’d, 
When least we deem of such, calls up to view 
The spectres whom no exorcism can bind ; 
