406 MAN OF SCIENCE. 



writing a speech, which begins " Ladies and Gentle- 

 men, I don't mind saying a few words ; I have been a 

 teetotaller eight years." He is a clever big-headed 

 little fellow, but somewhat spoiled by the notice which 

 has been taken of him. The circumstance of one's self 

 having children wonderfully softens the heart towards 

 the children of others. 



'There were some four or five points during my 

 journeyings of yesterday and to-day in which I wished 

 you were with me, at the Leasowes, at the Clent hills, 

 at Hagley, on the coach-top as we drove through the 

 region of furnaces, on the Dudley Castle Hill, and in 

 the caverns of the Wren's -nest. But though not strong 

 myself, you are less strong still, and could not have borne 

 half the fatigue. By the way, if this reach you ere you 

 have left the north, I would suggest to you coming 

 south by the omnibus that plies from Fort William to 

 Loch Lomond, passing through Glencoe and the Deer 

 Forest of Breadalbane. You would see by this means 

 some of the wildest scenery in the kingdom, scenery 

 that ere the establishment of the present conveyance was 

 scarcely accessible to ladies at all, and to men only at a 

 considerable expense of money and exertion. It would 

 be well for you to secure an inside seat, with the stipula> 

 tion that you might if you liked ride outside. Glencoe 

 is often drenched by deluging rains, and if you took 

 merely an outside seat, by far the most advantageous 

 for sight-seeing, you might suffer as much as you did 

 in the storm of Loch Katrine. If you take this route 

 there are one or two things to which it might be well to 

 direct your attention. After leaving Fort William the 

 scenery for the first eight or ten miles is tame, but this 

 part of the ride would be passed over in the twilight 

 darkness of the morning. You would then get into a 



