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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 thousand. Oh, what a delight- 

 ful time ! But after a nice dejeuner at two o'clock, we 

 were off soon after three to the station, and so reached 

 Marseilles at nine p. M. yesterday. 



I 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 

 fall. . . . 



TO E. W. CHUECH. 



On the Nile, between 

 GraaEH 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 Par 

 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- 



