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ceived accounts of the failure of Wright & Co. Myself and sisters- 

 in-law suffer to the tune of about ^800. 



CHARLES WATERTON. 



To the Same. 



WALTON HALL, July 5, 1842. 



My dear Friend, On the very day in which your most esteemed 

 iavour of June 13 reached me, I received from London " Part the 

 first, volume xix., of the ' Transactions of the Linnean Society of 

 London.' " 



At page then 59 of the above-mentioned work, I have at last 

 seen your beautiful paper on the habits of the box tortoise. This 

 paper is surrounded by others so dry and uninteresting, that posi- 

 tively I can't get through them. It is a fertile patch in a sandy 

 desert. I am extremely delighted with it. It gives me a complete 

 idea of the habits of the animal, which I preserved when I was with 

 you, and of which I was then enabled to obtain but a very meagre 

 account. I have written three papers in all for Loudon's Gardeners' 

 Magazine. The first is the solitary thrush ; the second, the civetta 

 or little Italian owl ; the third, the powers of vegetation. I don't 

 know if the Gardeners' Magazine travels as far as Philadelphia. 



You surprise me with the enormous number of emigrants. Still, 

 I ought not to be surprised when I reflect on the horrible state to 

 which this misgoverned country is reduced. I assure you the public 

 papers give but a faint idea of our distress. In Ireland the people 

 are actually dying for want ; and here in England we have too many 

 instances of the same kind of death. Whichever way you go, you 

 meet with objects of horrible distress. 



How delighted I am that Titian has returned. Poor fellow, he 

 must have suffered a martyrdom. Pray say everything that is kind 

 from me, and tell him that I long to read his most interesting ad- 

 ventures in print. It is singular that both he and I, going in quest 

 of zoological information, should have suffered shipwreck, and have 

 just saved ourselves with the clothes on our backs. I hope Peale's 

 health has not suffered. 



