582 APPENDIX. 



north-east ; and, although the barometer pointed to fair weather, we 

 had a plentiful supply of snow and hail. No swallows have as yet 

 appeared here ; and I do not expect them till the wind shall have 

 changed. My neighbour, Mr Green of Havercroft, has lost a horse, 

 aged forty-two years. There has been proof positive, at Sandal 

 Magna, of a common barndoor cock breeding with a guineafowl 

 hen. CHARLES WATERTON. 



To the Same. 



WALTON HALL, June 27, 1861. 



My dear Friend, Your most valuable letter of June 2d has arrived. 

 I now, for the first time, thoroughly understand the kick-up in your 

 lately peaceful country. That all may soon be right again, is my 

 most sincere wish. You have no need to fight. A boundless 

 country ; climates of all qualities ; soils the most fertile ; and 

 citizens, for intellect, courage, and acquirements, not to be sur- 

 passed by any people in the whole world ! what more do you 

 want? Sheathe, then, your drawn swords, put your faces against 

 long chimnies, and encourage ploughs and harrows. By so doing, 

 your magnificent country will soon again be the land of milk and 

 honey, as it was, when I visited it in the year 1824, and found it a 

 terrestrial paradise. One short line will show you the feeling of old 

 John with regard to yourselves. That party which will insure to 

 the greedy fellow the greatest supply of cotton, will always be in 

 greatest favour with him. 



Lately, a book, said to have been written by a New York man, 

 and published by Murray, and entitled, " Adventures in Western 

 Africa" (or some such title), but, in fact, nothing but a romantic 

 compilation from various sources, has caused a great stir here. M. 

 Du Chaillu, the author, gave a lecture replete with nonsense, at the 

 Geographical Society, and took in many of our learned closet 

 doctors in natural history. Audubon is immaculate when com- 

 pared with Du Chaillu. His adventures with the gorilla are most 

 formidable and false. Seeing that they militated directly against 

 what I had written on the monkey-family in my last volume of 



