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siderably richer in the more ancient organisms than the 

 British one. I saw in it not a few of the originals figured 

 by Murchison, and found it of use to acquaint myself 

 with them in their actual forms. But I will be unable, 

 I find, to add materially to my collection here. It is 

 rare to find a well-preserved trilobite, so rare that the 

 fossil dealers charge for them from 10s. to 5, and I can- 

 not afford to collect specimens at such a price. 1 had no 

 little pleasure, however, in hammering among the rocks, 

 though I found but little ; I was in a region which I 

 had not hitherto explored, and all I did find in it was 

 new to me, new, at least, as fossils, though Murchison 

 had brought me acquainted with their forms. 



'Dudley Castle is a fine specimen of the very 

 ancient and very extensive English'castle, consisting of 

 keep, chapel, dungeon, great hall, servants' hall, ladies' 

 rooms, &c., &c., with a vast court, in which I found a 

 company of soldiers on parade> and surrounded by a 

 deep moat. The keep, a picturesque pile of great 

 strength, bears marks of the iron hand of Cromwell. 

 It was garrisoned during the civil wars by the Royalists, 

 and held out until battered down on one of its sides 

 almost to the ground. Balls of thirty-two pound weight 

 have been found among the ruins, some of the Lord 

 Protector's arguments, of whom it may be said as 

 Barbour said of the Bruce, that 



" Where he strook wi' even straik 

 Nothing mocht against him stand." 



The castle, though now thoroughly a ruin, was inhabited 

 so recently, that the grandmother of Mrs Sherwood (an 

 authoress of some celebrity) spent some time in it in the 

 capacity of lady's-maid ; and the grand-daughter gives 

 some amusing gossip in one of her works of her ancestor's 

 recollections of its splendour. The English have less of 



