UNCLE IN ENGLAND. 137 



, -We accompanied my aunt and uncle 

 yesterday in a very pleasant expedition. We 

 boated to Elmore early in the morning to break- 

 fast with Mrs. Maude, and heard some very en- 

 taining letters from her daughter, which she was 

 so kind as to read to us. 



Miss-M. has been in town for three weeks, and 

 the friends she is with have made great exertions 

 to shew her every thing interesting. In the midst 

 of all her hurry, however, she has written con- 

 stantly home, describing all she does, and sees, 

 and thinks, that can interest her father and mo- 

 ther. She was not very fond of early rising ; but 

 now, in order to prevent any thing from inter- 

 fering with these letters, she has the resolution to 

 get up and write them before her friends' break- 

 fast hour. She has almost excited my envy by 

 her repeated visits to the British Museum to 

 galleries of beautiful paintings to botanic gar- 

 dens and stoves to collections of beasts, and 

 birds, and insects, to tunnels and suspension- 

 bridges, and to all sorts of curious machinery ; 

 and she has had the great advantage, too, of 

 having seen all these things in company with 

 people who could explain them to her. Alas ! 

 such things can be found only in London. 



After we had heard these letters, we went on 

 to Gloucester, where I had not yet been ; and 

 though it was not London, I had the pleasure of 



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