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' 26tk. After breakfast, started in a fly and pair 

 for Amlwch, round about by Cemmaes, etc. He 

 yielded the faults I claimed, and also that the altered 

 rocks were the same as those on the west side of the 

 island. We got to Amlwch by five, and took up our 

 quarters at the " Dinorbin Arms." After dinner he 

 talked of his old friends and acquaintances : Scott, 

 Byron, Madame De Stael, etc. etc., all of whom he 

 knew more or less. 



' 2*]th. Out in a car seeing the gneiss, etc., near 

 the smaller patch of granite. That point I yielded. 

 They are gneiss, and not granite. He was very 

 feeble, and could scarcely, with the help of my arm, 

 crawl along the hillsides, when for a little we put up 

 the car at a farm and walked. But there was a sort 

 of childish good-humour about him that touched me, 

 and I felt as fond of him as I ever did, before he 

 began to get so dodgy with all of us. We spent a 

 most jolly evening together again, he being full of 

 jokes, and making all the servants laugh at his repeti- 

 tions and kindly talk to them. 



1 One thing he said to-day amused me much. We 

 were sitting on the sea-beach, eating mutton sand- 

 wiches, and watching the action of the waves on the 

 pebbles, when Sir H. said: " I'll tell you what the old 

 gentleman is saying ; he's saying : * Only give me 

 plenty of time,' ha ! ha ! ha ! " 



' 28^. Left Amlwch after breakfast in a large 

 car and pair. Beautiful day. Lunched at Pentraith. 

 Sir H. in a sort of happy, amiable, kindly vein all day. 

 We put up at the "George," Menai Bridge. While I 

 am writing he is reading the Bible and commenting on 

 the Flood and other things in what he calls "that 

 funny story." The house being full, we are obliged 



