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Green Bank, September 6. When I reached this place 

 I was told that Lady Isabella Douglass, the sister of Lord 

 Selkirk, former governor of Canada, was here ; she is un- 

 able to walk, and moves about in a rolling chair. At 

 dinner I sat between her and Mrs. Rathbone, and I enjoyed 

 the conversation of Lady Douglass much, her broad Scotch 

 accent is agreeable to me ; and I amused her by eating 

 some tomatoes raw; neither she, nor any of the company 

 had ever seen them on the table without being cooked. 



— 'September 9. Dr. Traill has ordered all my drawings to 

 be packed by the curator of the Institution, so that has 

 given me no trouble whatever. It is hard to say farewell 

 to all those in town and country who have been so kind, 

 so hospitable to me, but to-morrow I leave for Manchester, 



swhere Mr. Roscoe advises me to go next. 



Manchester, County of Lancashire, September 10, 1826. 

 I must write something of my coming here. After 

 bidding adieu to many friends, I went to Dr. Traill, who 

 most kindly insisted on my taking Mr. Munro with me for 

 two days to assist me, and we left by coach with my 

 portfolios, my trunk to follow by a slower conveyance. I 

 paid one pound for our inside seats. I felt depressed' at 

 leaving all my good friends, yet Mr. Munro did all in his 

 power to interest me. He made me remark Lord Stanley's 

 domains, and I looked on the Hares, Partridges, and other 

 game with a thought of apprehension that the apparent 

 freedom and security they enjoyed was very transient. I 

 thought it more cruel to permit them to grow tame and 

 gentle, and then suddenly to turn and murder them by 

 thousands, than to give them the fair show that our game 

 has in our forests, to let them be free and as wild as nature 

 made them, and to let the hunter pay for them by the 

 pleasure and work of pursuing them. We stopped, I 

 thought frequently, to renew the horses, and wherever we 

 stopped a neatly dressed maid offered cakes, ale, or other 

 refreshments for sale. I remarked little shrubs in many 



