i) from Isabella to Albert. Nov. 4 
would have broken the heart of half a dozen other: 
women ; but fhe still retains her vivacity ; and in: 
very trying situations has acted in the most exem- 
“plary manner. I am persuaded that even you, with’ 
all your knowledge of the human character, would 
think fhe was an original, the like of whom, in all 
respects, you had never met with. . 
It was not long before fhe discovered that I had 
a philosophical brother, who was the idol of my af- 
fection. My little companion, Mary, who is an arch 
little monkey when fhe meets with a proper oppore 
tunity of displaying her humour, rallied me in her 
own peculiar way, about the anxiety I discovered to- 
find out some objects in natural history for ‘* my 
deer dee—ecer bro—ther |”? the told of the weeds that I 
had gathered on the hills, which I stored up with as 
much care as rare articles, and which fhe had disco~ 
vered to be the most common things. ‘* We have 
been hunting,” says fhe to Mrs B. “* these three 
weeks for some on descript vegetable or animal, in 
vain. Pray do, dear Mrs Bruhl, help us to some- 
thing of that sort, otherwise poor Isabella will fall 
into the dumps, and we fhall get nothing but hums 
and hahs from her for a month to come.” 
‘O! says Mrs B. * you have come in the lucki. 
est moment you ever could have hit upon; for ow 
my way hither yesterday, I fell in with a brute that 
is not, I believe, at all known in Scotland. It is 
quite peculiar to England, where it is so exclusively 
indiginous, that it cannot live, I am told, forany length 
of time any where else. It is a most singular crea 
ture ;fand what is most surprising, though it be 
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