20 EARLY LIFE. 



am employed in the Greek verbs. "When business 

 is over I amuse myself with reading, skaiting (sic), or 

 walking. If you can find leisure to write me a few 

 lines, I shall think myself particularly honoured by it. 

 As I fear I have already tried your patience, wish- 

 ing many happy new years to yourself and Mrs E., 

 the college family Kussells and Brydons in which 

 I am joined by all this family, I beg leave to sub- 

 scribe myself, dear sir, yours with the greatest respect 

 and esteem, HENRY BROUGHAM." 



Before I refer to my kinsman's answer, I may 

 interpose a letter which the kindness of a member of 

 the Kinloch-Moidart family has permitted me to use; 

 and I give it merely as showing the local impressions 

 made on me at the early age of thirteen. 



"BROUGHAM, July 14, 1792. 



" MY DEAR COUSIN, As my mother, ever since the 

 receipt of your kind letter, has been in a great bustle 

 with company, I, at her request, take advantage of a 

 cover which is going to your friend Mr Bell, from a 

 gentleman who dines here to-day with a most abomin- 

 ably formal company ; but if you expect much enter- 

 tainment from my pen you will be disappointed, for 

 nothing is more true than that the stillness of a coun- 

 try life furnishes few occurrences worthy of a place in 

 black and white. 



' To go back to April : James and I spent a very 

 agreeable week at Skirwith Abbey, the seat of a 



