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R. S. Williams, our vicar, Dr. Falconer of Bath, and 

 many others which (that I may not now weary myself 

 writing lists of names, and so deprive my mother of 

 the continuation of that inestimable catalogue with 

 which, she will be glad to hear, I must fill my next 

 letter) I forbear to mention. Then I now and then 

 write verses. And yet again, when these delights 

 fail, have I not some rare and delectable books, poets, 

 and historiographers ? For, look ye, how can a man 

 weary with the choice and truth-telling histories of 

 Alcofribas Nasier at his elbow, purchased by me at 

 Birmingham for the small sum of 6s. 6d., and con- 

 taining more wisdom and erudition than all the 

 collected works of Hume and Smollet, Gibbon, Hero- 

 dotus, Titus Plinius, Ferguson, Aristotle, Macaulay, 

 Justinian (see his Pandects), Aulus Gellius, Avicenna, 

 Froissart, Mrs. Trimmer, Bishop Stillingfleet, Machia- 

 velli, Lamartine, Fox of ye Martyrology, Dean Swift, 

 Phillip de Commines, Jean Paul Richter, Gawain 

 Douglas, Knickerbocker, Anthony Count Hamilton, 

 Barbour, the Rabbi Benjamin of Tudela, Ruddiman, 

 Plutarchus, Mosheim, Mrs. Trollope, Thuanus, Rev. 

 Thomas Burnett, Major Sabine, and many others, 

 whose names I shall continue in my next letter? 

 Yours affectionately, A. C. R. 



' 2nd November. Magnificent day. Got a splendid 

 day's work done, taking up the Llynbodgynwydd ash, 

 and carrying it all round nearly to Trefriw, and so 

 back by Llyn Geirionydd. It was a glorious day's 

 work, and a glorious day to work in, so still and sunny. 

 Speaking of peace, I conceived a sonnet on the way 

 home, when I saw the mountains rise high and solemn 

 into the sky in the twilight.' 





