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For myself I did not mind waiting till one o’clock, 
that I might make myself look a little decent, though 
I had not the means here of improving my appearance 
much ; as to my boots, and indeed all my habiliments, 
they were much in the condition of those of the Gib- 
eonites when they made their visit to Joshua. Wrote 
a little, went out to take a look at the Castle of Chil- 
lon, which is near, — the building itself not remark- 
ants, but the situation fine. . . 
Took the steamboat in the aeieuies passed Vevay, 
Lausanne, ete., etc., and after traversing the whole 
length of this seidioodminal: most beautifal lake, ar- 
rived at Geneva just at sunset; having accomplished 
my pedestrian tour (long to be remembered) in ten 
days (excluding the Sunday)... . 
GENEVA, 19th July. 
My mornings, between eleven and four, have been 
constantly and fully oceupied at De Candolle’s. 
Earlier in the morning I have spent much time with 
Mr. Duby,! a botanist and clergyman,— one of the 
government pastors here, and it is said almost the 
only one who is a pious man. I have yet to pack up 
a box of my gatherings and to send to the roulage to 
be forwarded to New York. I have taken lodgings, 
for my short stay here, with the Wolff family, very 
pious and excellent people, who are pretty well known 
to many persons of the same class in New York. One 
of the daughters is the wife of Dr. Buck,? and I be- 
lieve your dear mother is acquainted with her. After 
dinner I have sometimes made little excursions in the 
1 Jean Etienne Duby, 1797-1885; long one of the Genevese clergy 
and a botanist and colleague of Augustin Pyramus de Candolle. 
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