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do without you, just as well as you can do with- 

 out me. 



But, more seriously, I have never been so happy 

 in any office, and that just because I have found the 

 members gentlemanly, considerate, and kind with few 

 exceptions two individuals only and of these only 

 one hollow. However, hollow or whole, no matter. I 

 thank God that I am what I am ; that although I 

 have, and have good reason to have, a very low 

 opinion of myself, I have yet been endowed with 

 faculties the exercise of which will enable me, with 

 the guidance and protection of God, to procure a 

 proper share of the things that belong to this life. 

 As to the next, I have confidence in God, that, having 

 begun, He will accomplish. 



So, as I was saying, the Dublin Zoological Garden 

 is good, although it might be better. 



The district around Dublin, et infra, is of a 

 geological formation, which, for want of data, I am 

 unable to determine. 



Thursday. 



Was out at eight and walked along the southern 

 canal, where I observed abundance of Poa aquatica 

 and Lycopus Europceus, together with other more 

 common plants. At nine went to Dr. Evanson's 

 to breakfast, where I met a number of medical 

 gentlemen, together with Pat Doran, the mineral 

 dealer. One of these gentlemen, Dr. John Hart, 



