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CLXXV. 



HUMBOLDT TO VARNHAGEN. 



Berlin, 14th April, 1856. 



As the oldest Prussian official connected with 

 mines, and being proud of the position, I felt 

 called upon to speak. My confidence in your in- 

 dulgence is so great, my dear and generous friend, 

 that I even dare to offer to you these unimportant 

 lines in print. Count B. deserved this praise, for 

 that being of liberal tendencies, mining was thriving 

 under his auspices ; and although he has some time 

 since resigned the direction, he is still scientifically 

 occupied with it. With unalterable fidelity, yours, 



Monday. A. V. HUMBOLDT. 



Rote by Varrihagen. "With the speech delivered on the occasion of 

 the Jubilee (9th April, 1856) of his Excellency Count Beust, Privy 

 Councillor and Chief Inspector of Mines. 



CLXXVI. 



HUMBOLDT TO VARNHAGEN. 



Berlin, llth September, 1856. 



As you take a lively interest, dear friend, in the 

 Slavery Question, and in all that concerns myself, I 

 send you Gerolt's last letter. It has arrived very 

 late, but is sure to interest you. Buchanan, unfor- 

 tunately, is to be President, not Fremont, the learned 

 traveller, who has four times performed the overland 

 journey to California with a view to surveying it, 

 and to whose exertions it is owing that California 

 has not become a Slave State. 



I beg you not to return the letter and its enclosures. 



And now, after this African folly, for another piece 



