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England is a land of hedgerows, while the Irish farmers delight 

 either in stone walls or in ill -kept dykes. The trees in England 

 also have great beauty. 



I should like to know whether G-. appreciates the wonders 

 she is seeing, so different from her former experience of 

 life. You speak of the seaside place you are staying at as 

 being "sleepy and lazy." If you want real seaside and bracing 

 air, wild scenery and rousing inducements, you should visit 

 some of our west of Ireland watering-places, where the Atlantic 

 rolls in as grandly as the Pacific does in Chili. I do not much 

 fancy fashionable resorts when I go to the sea. I like to be 

 at a place where one can go about in straw hat and jacket, 

 and carry baskets or bottles, or tin boxes, as the case may be. 

 Some years ago I wrote a little book to assist young naturalists 

 at the seaside, and I have desired my publisher to forward to 

 your address by post a copy of " The Seaside Book," which 

 may help to introduce G. to some of the marine plants and 

 animals she may pick up in her rambles. If she finds any 

 chapter too troublesome to understand she can skip it. In my 

 next edition I must put in something about the silver in the 

 water. I had heard from Mr. F. Field of his researches before 

 I left Coquimbo, and seen a specimen of the silver. I also saw the 

 notice in the " Eoyal Society's Proceedings," and more recently 

 the popular rendering in Dickens' " Household Words," where 

 the account given will, I think, divert your brother himself. 



Yours very truly, 



W. H. Hakvey. 



To the Same. 



Trinity College, September 17. 

 I am glad to get your letter, for I had been thinking 

 several times these last few days that it was long since I heard 

 of you. I hope you have been enjoying yourself among your 

 friends in various quarters, and certainly you have had splendid 

 weather for the purpose ; and now you tell me that the holidays 

 are nearly over, and you must go back to school (shall I call 

 it ?) in Chili : " a school for patience " it is at least, and so 

 indeed is every colonial or extra-European residence to a person 

 who has many connections in this hemisphere. 



You ask me whether you can do anything for me in Chili, 



