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nature and condition of the Fens his early 

 study, he took every opportunity of propos- 

 ing and advocating measures that should 

 improve the value of the soil and materially 

 advance the interests of the inhabitants. 



We spent the evening together, enjoy- 

 ing each other's conversation to a late hour, 

 though I was more intent on the informa- 

 tion I was obtaining than in dilating on my 

 own antecedents, which he seemed at in- 

 tervals desirous to ascertain. This ac- 

 quaintance, if a free and familiar, though 

 but occasional intercourse does not deserve 

 a better name continued, until the rail put 

 an end to my career, which he did not long 

 survive. Peace to his manes ! * 



* Samuel Wells, Esq., late Registrar to the Bedford Level 

 Corporation. 



