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than by returning as its first member one so 

 well qualified to advocate its own principles ? " 



He was not, however, the only candidate. Mr. 

 Lowe and Mr. Bagehot had also strong supporters, 

 both were warm friends of his, and all three 

 being Liberals made any contest all the more 

 distasteful to him. His old friends in West 

 Kent, moreover, were very anxious that he should 

 again fight their battle, and this finally he felt 

 to be his duty. 



Later in the year we find him staying with 

 the Grant Duffs at Eden, whence he made a 

 trip, with Mr. Archibald Hamilton, to the Orkneys 

 and Shetlands, returning by " the Parallel Roads 

 of Glenroy." He read a paper on the subject 

 of the " parallel roads " before the Geological 

 Society. 



