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Prince's mind, that he left his gig and climbed the rock, to examine, 

 in place, this perfect wall of black basalt, cutting in two a cliff of 

 sienite, and preserving its distinctness, even where both it and the 

 broken rock were deeply worn and channeled by the powerful bil- 

 lows of that stormy coast, near which nothing exists as a breakwater 

 to breast the waves and check the force of the ocean, impelled by 

 tempests from the east. 



From a circuit of twenty miles, the venerable philosopher return- 

 ed, excited and gratified, while he manifested little more fatigue than 

 the youngest of the party. 



In his house he still exhibited not only the courtesies of hospital- 

 ity, but the delightful resources of science : his library, his appara- 

 tus, and his experiments were open and accessible to his friends, and 

 especially to strangers interested in liberal knowledge. The writer 

 was, at several interviews, favored with those beautiful experiments 

 so well described by Mr. Upham — the glories of the solar microscope, 

 the splendid artificial volcano, the endless variety and both delicate 

 and gorgeous beauty of the images of the improved Kaleidoscope, 

 besides a rich train of experimental exhibition on other subjects, in 

 which hours slid rapidly and most agreeably away. 



In these kind and instructive recreations. Dr. Prince exhibited 

 the activity and animation of early years — a perfect comprehension 

 of his subject and a high degree of enjoyment in making others hap- 

 py. It was surprising to observe the great amount of intellectual 

 and physical materiel which he had accumulated within his domestic 

 confines. In his study, although not small, you literally threaded 

 your way through alleys and vistas of books, instruments and speci- 

 mens, and not an inch of room was lost in the skillful disposition of 

 this philosophical panoply. 



In commemorating this most venerable and most interesting sage, 

 it may not be inappropriate to mention, that many years since, when 

 employed among the philosophical artists of London in obtaining 

 various and valuable instruments, I found that Dr. Prince's name 

 and his discoveries and improvements, were well known and highly 

 appreciated by them, and an eminent artist in that great capital 

 could present me nothing better in pneumatics than the air pump, 

 and in optics than the lucernal and solar microscopes of Dr. Prince. 

 The collection of instruments obtained on that occasion, was after 

 their arrival, reviewed by Dr. Prince in Yale College, and having 

 met his decided and warm approbation, this judgment when reported 



