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is somebody whom he does not know, so we gave up 

 going to Dartmouth and agreed to have a lazy day here. 

 It is the most exquisite summer weather you can 

 imagine, and I have been basking in the sun all the 

 morning and dreamily looking over the view of the 

 lovely bay which is looking its best but take it all 

 round it does not come up to Lynton. Dalhousie is more 

 likeable than ever, and I am just going out for a stroll 

 with him. 



June 24. I left Keswick this morning for Cocker- 

 mouth, took the chair at my meeting punctually at 

 twelve, sat six mortal hours listening to evidence, nine- 

 tenths of which was superfluous and turning my lawyer 

 faculty to account in sifting the grains of fact out of the 

 other tenth. 



June 25, Leeds. . . . We had a long drive to a 

 village called Harewood on the Wharfe. There is a big 

 Lord lives there Earl of Harewood and he and his 

 ancestors must have taken great care of their tenants, for 

 the labourers' houses are the best I ever saw. ... I cut 

 out the enclosed from the Standard the other day to 

 amuse you, but have forgotten to send it before. 1 I 

 think we will be "Markishes," the lower grades are 

 getting common. 



June 27. . . . I had a long day's inspection of the 

 Wharfe yesterday, attended a meeting of the landed 

 proprietors at Ottley to tell them what they must do if 

 they would get salmon up their river. . . . 



I shall leave here to-morrow morning, go on to 

 Skipton, whence seven or eight miles' drive will take me 

 to Lin ton where there is an obstruction in the river I 

 want to sea In the afternoon I shall come home from 

 Skipton, but I don't know exactly by what train. As 

 far as I see, I ought to be home by about 10.30, and you 



1 Apparently announcing that he was about to accept a title. 

 I have not been able to trace the paragraph. 



