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They were stored chiefly in the chamber of a warehouse 

 in the Main Street [in Newport] contiguous to the family 

 mansion. In this room, Miss Gibbs was so obliging as to 

 meet me several times, and to remain while 1 examined 

 the minerals. Her intelligence, courtesy, and benignity 

 made these interviews extremely agreeable to me. If I 

 was fearful of intruding upon her time and engagements, 

 she made everything easy to me, and I was even more 

 delighted with the lady than with the minerals, although 

 the latter were very instructive and gratifying, and gave 

 me exalted ideas of what the entire collection probably 

 contained. Important results grew out of these inter- 

 views, as I shall have occasion to mention farther on. 

 Miss Ruth Gibbs married her cousin, Wm. E. Channing, 

 afterwards, and for a long life, the admired and honored 

 Rev. Dr. Channing of Boston, whose exalted talents, at- 

 tainments, and virtues made him well worthy of so noble a 

 woman. He was removed by death a number of years 

 ago, but she remains his honored widow, and has not par- 

 ticipated in the decays which commonly attend the evening 

 of life. Dr. Channing gave me strong proofs of esteem 

 and confidence during the years when I knew him in Bos- 

 ton, and Mrs. Channing has recently spoken with interest 

 to a common friend in Boston, (Miss D. L. Dix,) of those 

 early interviews over her brother's minerals. 



I had not been negligent of the few minerals which I 

 found in the drawers of the old Museum of Yale College. 

 I have often mentioned that I carried them in a small box 

 to Philadelphia, and that Dr. Adam Seybert kindly named 

 them for me. They were chiefly metallic ores, among 

 which lead and iron were the most remarkable ; there was 

 a splendid specimen of irised oxide of iron, from Elba. 

 My brother had then recently purchased for Yale College 

 a very small collection of minerals brought out from Eng- 

 land by Dr. Senter, who afterwards fell in a duel with John 

 Rutledge at Savannah ^femina teterrima causa" Among 



