CHAPTER XVI. , 



PUBLISHES "PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY" LETTER FROM HUMBOLDT CHRIST- 

 MAS AT COLLINGWOOD LETTER FROM MRS. SOMERVILLE FARADAY 

 LETTER FROM FARADAY KEITH JOUNSTONE's MAPS WINTER AT 

 MUNICH SALZBURG LAKE OF GARDA MINISCALCHI POEM BY 

 CATERINA BRENZONI LETTER FROM BRENZONI LETTER FROM MRS. 

 SOMERVILLE fLOGE BY MINISCALCHI WINTER AT TURIN BARON 

 PLANA CAMILLO CAVOUR- COLLINE NEAR TURIN GENOA TERESA 

 DOVIA FLORENCE MISS F. P. COBBE VIVISECTION EXCURSIONS IN 

 THE NEIGHBOURHOOD CHOLERA MISERICORDIA PIO NONO IN 

 TUSCANY COMET TUSCAN REVOLUTION WAR IN LOMBARDY 

 ENTRY OF VICTOR EMMANUEL INTO FLORENCE LETTERS FROM MRS. 

 SOMERVILLE MY FATHER'S DEATH LETTER FROM MISS COBBE. 



WE spent the autumn in visiting my relations on 

 the banks of the Tweed. I was much out of health 

 at the time. As winter came on I got better, and 

 was preparing to print my " Physical Geography " 

 when " Cosmos " appeared. I at once determined to 

 put my manuscript in the fire when Somerville said, 

 " Do not be rash consult some of our friends 

 Herschel for instance." So I sent the MS. to Sir 

 John Herschel, who advised me by all means to 

 publish it. It was very favourably reviewed by Sir 

 Henry Holland in the " Quarterly," which tended 



