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pastures and the preservation of fruit, to the 

 ^' Tron-Duke " bit and a locomotive battery; 

 and lie has also found time to offer suggestions 

 as to recruiting, military colonies in India, the 

 improvement of the metropolis, &c., to the 

 proper authorities, which H.E.H. the Duke 

 of Cambridge, Lord Palmerston, and others 

 have thought well worth consideration. 



Although the following reminiscences are 

 tolerably numerous, yet I believe that a suf- 

 ficient number of useful hints and interest- 

 ing facts can be added, if Mr. Smith can be 

 prevailed on to take the trouble of relating 

 them, to fill another volume or two. 



A FRIEND. 



