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delivered Doctor Torrey's letter and parcel, when we 

 recognized each other as fellow-passengers in the coach 

 from Newcastle, he being a Scotch gentleman, — look- 

 ing very like my friend Couthouy of the exploring 

 expedition, — whom I was far from imagining would 

 prove to be the professor in the Durham Univer- 

 sity ; took my tea and spent the greater part of 

 the evening with him. He told me be was just about 

 to send a parcel to Doctor Torrey by a friend going 

 next week to America. I must embrace this oppor- 

 tunity to send my letters, now forming a somewhat 

 bulky parcel. . . . 



Spent Monday with Professor Johnston in his lab- 

 oratory, witnessing the progress of some analyses of 

 resins, etc., in which he is now much engaged ; also went 

 through the old castle, now used for the university ; 

 dined with Professor Johnston at four clock ; returned 

 to the hotel. . . . Took my tea with him, and he accom- 

 panied me at half past nine to the coach of&ce, whence 

 I took coach for Leeds. I have little to say about 

 Durham University, promising as it is in some resj)ects, 

 because they have adopted the monkish system of Ox- 

 ford and Cambridge to the fullest extent ; the pro- 

 fessors and tutors except Johnston are aU clergy- 

 men ; the curriculum includes nothing but classics, a 

 little mathematics, and less logic ; their professor of 

 natural philosophy never lectures ; they give their 

 professor of chemistry, mineralogy, and geology 

 just fifty pounds a year (nothing for his experiments), 

 and require no one to attend his lectures. 



But now I must record some painful news, just 

 learned to-day, which has shocked me exceedingly, 

 but which you will have heard of long ere this reaches 

 you ; viz.. the loss of the noble ship Pennsylvania, 



