3i4« THE LAST SUMMITS AND WINTERS. 



grateful for all the care and kindness oestowea upon me 

 during my illness, and for the goodness and mercv wnicn 

 have followed me all the days of my iife. — I am, sincerely 

 and sympathising^ yours," &c. 



TO SIR "W. JARDINE, BART. 



"Board of Fisheries, Edinburgh, 

 31s< July 1855. 



" I found so many interruptions at home lately, from 

 strawberry-feeders and flower-pulling parties, that I have 

 been taking refuge here in a large room, with a more 

 commodious and less crowded table than my own, where I 

 can expatiate on some fishing points, on which I am pressed 

 for 'copy' I have also ready access to some documents 

 which I could scarcely carry home. I forget if I men- 

 tioned to you that my old friend Adam Black had got 

 both himself and me into a scrape, in consequence of some 

 misapprehension about the article ' Fisheries ' for the 

 ' Encyclopaedia.' He thought I had promised to do it, and 

 when asked if it was ready, all I could say was that I had 

 never even heard that it was expected. Whose memory 

 was in fault nobody can tell, but I have been endeavour- 

 ing to remedy the mistake, by whomsoever made, by work- 

 ing rather closer than 1 wished to do during this flowery 

 and imity season. 



