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ant ; his carriage waited for us at the station ; a de- 

 lightful place, which made us crazy with delight, 3,000 

 or more species of the most interesting plants growing 

 in the open air, where frost is seldom seen ; plants and 

 trees which starve in conservatories here grow to vast 

 size ; all kinds of things I never saw growing anyhow 

 before ! Roses by the thousand. Oh, what a delight- 

 ful time ! But after a nice dejeuner at two o'clock, we 

 were off soon after three to the station, and so reached 

 Marseilles at nine P. M. yesterday. 



I have left no room to speak of the most sad loss 

 of Mann, very sad. How it will affect me I cannot 

 tell now, but suppose it will bring us home next 

 faU. 



TO R. W. CHURCH. 



ON THE NILE, BETWEEN 

 GIRGEH AND DENDERA, January 3, 



It is only by an effort of memory that I can recall 

 that seemingly far distant week, with which my nar- 

 rative must commence, when we went, on Monday, to 

 Nice by railway, and on Tuesday (taking my college 

 colleague, Professor Lovering), by a carriage over the 

 finest part of the Corniche road to Mentone, and, drop- 

 ping our companion there, three miles further to Pa- 

 lazzo Orengo, just within the present Italian frontier ; 

 a house several hundred years old, which Mr. Hanbury, 

 our host, has recently restored and is beautifying. It 

 is near the base of a steep acclivity, projecting a little 

 into the sea and commanding a view of Mentone and 

 Monaco with the mountains behind and westward far 

 beyond them . on the one side, Ventimiglia and Bor- 

 dighera on the other, and seaward on rare occasions 

 giving a view of the mountains of Corsica, over a hun- 



