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sometime. It was a most enjoyable trip and a unique one 

 to me. I went round among the farmers and saw the cattle 

 at home. I was lucky in going with a man who has im- 

 ported Jerseys for over fifty years, and he took me round 

 with him on his buying trips. It was about as instructive 

 and pleasant a trip as I ever took. Sunday I attended 

 service in a church about eight hundred years old. The 

 English garrison marched in in full regimentals and the 

 music was by the full band. You can't think how it echoed 

 and rolled around in the stone arches. It happened to be 

 Harvest Home festival and the church was filled with flow- 

 ers, fruits and vegetables." 



A lecture entitled "The Agriculture of the Channel 

 Islands " was prepared on his return to America, and is given 

 hi this volume. 



From London, November 11, he wrote: "I am, I hope, 

 entirely recovered. Have pulled up steadily ever since I 

 left America and hope before long to be turning my face 

 towards the States." But his hope of recovery was not to 

 be realized. 



During his visit to England in 1894, he was very much 

 interested at Oxford in the Bodleian Library, at Stratford 

 in everything pertaining to Shakespeare, and in the Isle of 

 Wight, in Carisbrooke Castle, now mostly in ruins, with 

 its historical associations* its foundation going back to 

 Saxon times, its keep of Norman times, its walls and tower 

 of the thirteenth century, and its residential buildings 

 added during the reign of Elizabeth. Here King Charles I 

 spent a year, a prisoner of the Parliament, scheming to 

 pair off the Parliament against the army, and made his last 

 move on the checkerboard of Fate, in an attempt to bring 



