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also witnessed the turning out of a Stag from a cart, be- 

 fore probably a hundred hounds and as many huntsmen. 

 A curious land, and a curious custom, to catch an animal, 

 and set it free merely to catch again. We crossed the 

 Thames twice, near its head; it does not look like the 

 Ohio, I assure thee ; a Sand-hill Crane could easily wade 

 across it without damping its feathers. 



March 25. My feet are positively sore battering the 

 pavement ; I have walked from one house and College to 

 another all day, but have a new subscriber, and one not 

 likely to die soon, the Anatomical School, through Dr. 

 Kidd.^ He and I ran after each other all day like the 

 Red-headed Woodpeckers in the spring. I took a walk 

 along two little streams, bearing of course the appellation 

 of rivers, the Isis and the Charwell; the former freezes 

 I am told at the bottom, never at the top. Oxford seems 

 larger than Cambridge, but is not on the whole so pleas- 

 ing to me. I do not think the walks as fine, there are 

 fewer trees, and the population is more mixed. I have 

 had some visitors, and lunched with Dr. Williams, who 

 subscribed for the Radcliffe Library, whither we both 

 went to inspect the first number. When I saw it, it 

 drew a sigh from my heart. Ah ! Mr. Lizars ! was this 

 the way to use a man who paid you so amply and so 

 punctually .-• I rolled it up and took it away with me, for 

 it was hardly colored at all, and have sent a fair new set 

 of five numbers. I dined at the Vice-Chancellor's at six; 

 his niece, Miss Jenkins, did the honors of the table most 

 gracefully. There were ten gentlemen and four ladies, 

 and when the latter left, the conversation became more 

 general. I was spoken to about Wilson and C. Bona- 

 parte, and could heartily praise both. 



March 27. Breakfasted with Mr. Hawkins, Provost of 

 Oriel College, and went immediately after with him to 



1 Dr. John Kidd, 1775-1851, Professor of Chemistry and Medicine at 

 Oxford. 



