The Professor: Ajaccio 



scented flowers, wandering through the 

 maquis, the myrtle scrub, through jungles of 

 lentisk and arbutus; barely containing his 

 emotion when he passed beneath the great 

 secular chestnut-trees of Bastelica, with their 

 enormous trunks and leafy boughs, whose 

 sombre majesty inspired in him a sort of 

 melancholy at once poetic and religious. Be- 

 fore the sea, with its infinite distances, he 

 lingered in ecstasy, listening to the song of 

 the waves, and gathering the marvellous 

 shells which the snow-white breakers left 

 upon the beach, and whose unfamiliar forms 

 filled him with delight. 



Not that he had time to make a very rich 

 harvest of facts and observations in this won- 

 derful country. The most visible result of 

 his sojourn in the " isle of beauty," and the 

 greatest benefit which he derived from it, 

 seems to have been the fact that it brought 

 his heart and mind — if I may be permitted 

 the expression — into a state of entomological 

 grace; I mean into a state of living and act- 

 ing truly and beautifully in accordance with 

 his vocation as a naturalist. 



So it is that the name of this radiant 

 daughter of the Mediterranean, which is so 

 often written by his pen, seems to find its way 

 thither in order to evoke one of the bright- 



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