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can scarcely imagine them to have been good likenesses of his highly 

 intellectual countenance. 



Bailey's bust in the library of the Literary and Philosophical Society, 

 of this town, is certainly the best representation of him, giving the very 

 spirit and expression of his face, and descending to the peculiarities of 

 the veins on the temple, the quid in the lip, and the tufts of hair in the 

 ears : he had, however, an excellent full length small likeness taken by 

 Good, a short time previous to his death, which though done when he 

 was not in good health, and therefore representing him too thin, still 

 gives an excellent idea of the old man : all the animation and intelli- 

 gence is there, and the subsidiary parts of the picture are good. Mr. 

 Charnley possesses also another good likeness done by Nicholson, 

 when Bewick was at Chillingham ; it is merely a drawing in water 

 colour, but is very like. 



The impression, when we took our leave on our first visit, was a very 

 pleasing one ; he earnestly pressed us to go and see him often, and such 

 was the gratification I immediately experienced in his society, that an 

 excuse half as good would have entailed on him much of my company ; 

 as it was, I used to be with him two or three times a week, and al- 

 ways met with the same cordial welcome, or kind reproval for not 

 coming more frequently. 



I look back now with feelings of the greatest satisfaction to the plea- 

 sant and instructive hours I have spent with him, and am only diffident 

 of my power to do justice to the recollections of them, particularly as 

 the road I travel is new to me, and my only directors, those unsatisfac- 

 tory mile-posts of memory, desultory memoranda, penned down as op- 

 portunity or inclination dictated. These, by the bye, were, I find, com- 

 menced at his suggestion, as the first memorial of him that I possess in 

 writing is at the commencement of some such fancy repository, and is 

 merely a note to that effect. 



He used to say it was such a source of melancholy satisfaction to him 

 to recal the bright hours spent with those who have left us, that he in- 

 sisted in my pursuing the same method to perpetuate them. 



He kept an obituary too, and intended it to blend and keep pace with 



