316 THE LAST SUMMERS AND WINTERS. 



catching it with Dr Leach, and continuing to serod nim 

 specimens to London from time to time ; but I forget if 

 he ever published any original or other description of 

 it. It is entered in Samouelle's 'Compendium,' 1819. I 

 don't know what Donovan says, my copy being borrowed." 



TO MISS TAYLOR. 



" Woodville, 3d Dec. 1 855. 

 " . . . . There is certainly a great want of continuity 

 as well as efficiency in anything I have tried to do since I 

 came last home, and I almost fear I am too old to mend. 

 However, I suppose that I should at least make the 

 attempt. To a certain extent I have been lately doing 

 so, while visiting with our new clergyman such of our 

 congregation as reside in the southern districts, which 

 have been assigned to my supervision. Many changes 

 have taken place among our people. Of many, the places 

 now know them no more for ever, seeming to say, ' Be ye 

 also ready.' Alas ! how often has that been said afore- 



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time, and with how little effect ! May the grace of God 

 be so vouchsafed that while speaking to others, I be not 

 myself a castaway ! 



" I sometimes feel, especially while indulging in the 

 dreamy remembrances of Westmoreland, that what Ruskin 

 calls ' the duty of delight ' is the only ce e I ever perfo; ; i 



