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my own gathering, many of them still bearing young 

 Andrew's handwriting. I think they must be those I 

 sent to a young Englishman, in exchange for fossils 

 of the English Oolite and Lias. I think I remem- 

 ber being hurried when I sent them, and getting An- 

 drew to name them for me. Over one of the speci- 

 mens, in a conspicuous corner, I saw printed large, 

 " Miller's Winged Fish." I may mention, but I am 

 afraid you will not care very much for the information, 

 that the large fragments of icthyolites found in Russia, 

 which, from the description of Murchison, I concluded 

 to be identical with those I have got from Thurso, are 

 altogether different from them ; so both my specimens 

 and the Russian ones are alike unique. 



1 The time which I could not devote to the Museum, 

 for it is open only on alternate days, I spent in 

 general sight-seeing. I contrived to get to the Golden 

 Gallery of St Paul's, from which I saw London in the 

 form of a whole county covered with brick and smoke. 

 Its greatness, however, though it contains many fine 

 things, is merely the result of aggregation ; by adding 

 brick to brick and beam to beam London has been 

 made great. If we pit cities against each other, as the 

 English pit their boxers, weight for weight, Edinburgh, 

 for its weight and inches, is by much the greater city of 

 the two. 



' By the way, you said nothing in your last of poor 

 Harriet. Tell her that I have put a kiss in the heart 

 of this round Q, which she must try to bring out 

 of it. This is a fine country for nuts, and I must get 

 some for her Halloween, brought to Archibald Place. 

 I did not get to the Liverpool Meeting. . . . From the 

 tone of the dissenting papers here regarding it, I have 

 lost all hope of its producing aught except bad speeches. 



