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ant; his carriage waited for us at the station; a de- 
lightful place, which made us crazy with delight, 3,000 
or more species of the most interesting plants growing 
in the open air, where frost is seldom seen ; plants and 
trees which starve in conservatories here grow to vast 
size; all kinds of things I never saw growing anyhow 
before! Roses by the ould, Oh, what a delight- 
ful time! But after a nice déjeuner at two o’clock, we 
were off soon after three to the station, and so reached 
Marseilles at nine P. M. yesterday. 
T have left no room to speak of the most sad loss 
of Mann, very sad. How it will affect me I cannot 
tell now, but suppose it will bring us home next 
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TO R. W. CHURCH. 
THE NILE, BETWEEN 
GrmcGEH AND DENDERA, January 3, 1869. 
It is only by an effort of memory that I can recall 
that seemingly far distant week, with which my nar- 
rative must commence, when we went, on Monday, to 
Nice by railway, and on Tuesday (taking my college 
colleague, Professor Lovering), by a carriage over the 
finest part of the Corniche road to Mentone, and, drop- 
ping our companion there, three miles further to Pa- 
lazzo Orengo, just within the present Italian frontier ; 
a house several hundred years old, which Mr. Hanbury, 
our host, has recently restored and is beautifying. It 
is near the base of a steep acclivity, projecting a little 
into the sea and commanding a view of Mentone and 
Monaco with the mountains behind and westward far 
beyond them on the one side, Ventimiglia and Bor- 
dighera on the other, and seaward on rare occasions 
giving a view of the mountains of Corsica, over a hun- 
