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who can feel for the true dignity and happiness of 
mankind. 
“ Your affectionate friend, 
“W. Roscoe.” 
Mr. Woodward in some observations upon the 
Tour, selects the description of his journey up 
Mount Cenis, as the part he preferred. “This 
charming chapter,” he tells his friend, “I can never 
sufficiently admire. Fora botanist the scene has, as 
you observe, peculiar charms: in reading this the 
second time, I frequently laid down the book for a 
few minutes to prolong the pleasure, dreading to 
get to the end of the chapter. The journey to 
Chamouny has nearly equal charms, but the sub- 
ject was not so novel as Mount Cenis.” 
After this excess of approbation, which the mind 
is not always in tune to accord with, it is a bold 
resolve to give the reader the passage, which his 
partial friend so much approved. 
“ Aug. 11. About eleven at night I set out from 
Turin along with Mr. de Sousa, Dr. Bellardi, Dr. 
Buonvicino a mineralogist, and the Abbé Vasco a 
natural philosopher. 
“ dug. 12. Early in the morning we found our- 
selves among the narrow passes about the foot of 
the Alps, with majestic scenery intermixed with - 
cultivation, and here and there a not very flourish- 
ing village. Passed through Suze, the key of Pied- 
mont, which of course is very strongly fortified; its 
bastions are cut out of the live rock. The country 
