OF JOHN EDDOWES BOWMAN, ESQ. 51 
say,what was wanting to make it an earthly para- 
dise.’”—*‘ At Northwich, explored the salt mines, 
in avast subterranean cavern, of about two acres 
of surface, the superincumbent earth supported 
by irregularly placed square pillars of the rock 
salt. When I had made the scene sufficiently 
familiar to leave an impression on my mind, I 
ascended in the bucket, and in a minute and a 
half we found ourselves on the earth’s green car- 
pet, with my feelings more sensibly alive to all the 
pleasures of a fine summer morning, from the 
novel contrast of the scene I had just been con- 
templating. ‘Thus in the course of two hours, 
was I gratified with a view of the wonderful opera- 
tions of the Deity, in the most showy and conspi- 
cuous, as well as in the most concealed, parts of 
his works, and both of them, I think, will make a 
permanent impression on my mind.” 
In the long evenings of winter he occasionally 
resumed his genealogical pursuits, and traced back 
through several generations the pedigree of the 
family of Eddowes, from which he and his wife 
were descended. But the simplicity of his mind 
is conspicuous, in the remarks with which he ac- 
companies in his Diary the record of this employ- 
ment. ‘It will be a work of some labour, and fit 
