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Murchison^\. In fact, the one-sidedness lay all on the 

 other side. . . . Last Wednesday Ward read a second 

 paper at the Geological Society on the Cumbrian 

 Lake-basins, going the whole hog in re their glacier 

 origin. Bonney allowed that he could go that length, 

 but that the theory in no way applied to the Swiss 

 and Italian lakes. Since then I have received a letter 

 from Gastaldi enclosing a MS. of a paper to be read 

 at the Academy of Turin on Sunday, the 7th February, 

 in which he proves that all the great Italian lakes were 

 produced by glacier erosion, and giving good reasons 

 for their special positions and relative sizes in relation 

 to the valleys in which they lie, and also their relations 

 to the Pliocene deposits of the valley of the Po. He 

 wants my opinion on it before it is read, which I will 

 send him on Monday. In the meanwhile, my wife is 

 translating it, and I will publish it with his permission 

 after he has read it. It is a very important paper. 

 Ever sincerely, A. C. RAMSAY. 



i6th April 1875. 



MY DEAR INFANTA [Miss Johnes] I do not think 

 you can have any idea of the good that my visit 

 to Dolaucothi did to me physically and morally. I 

 went on improving after I got home, too, extending 

 even to the art of lecturing within the last few days. 

 The pleasant quietness and the absence of all necessity 

 for being agreeable in your house (!) did me a power of 

 good. The dawdling by the quiet waters and among 

 my old friends the individual trees, and the sitting 

 opposite your father in the library, to say nothing 

 about his two daughters all about the house ach, 

 lieber Himmel ! these things were good for a man. 



1 See vol. ii. p. 186, note. 



