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Now for your queries. Is it that you don't understand in 

 Plocamium " alternately ternate or quaternate ?" [Here followed 

 two sketches.] You may compare these to Ogham runes if you 

 choose. I congratulate you on being through with Dr. Wolff. 

 I shall see him by-and-by, but shall defer buying till I get 

 him half-price, which is sure to be the case with a biographical 

 work in six months ! It just occurs to me to say, that at present 

 my lectures are " alternately hinate," and " alternately tern-ate," 

 week about. Do you understand ? 



1st week, 2 per day. 2nd week, 3 per day. 



3rd week, 2 per day. 4th week, 3 per day. 



Yours truly. 



To the Same. 



Upper Cahir Abbey, July 18th. 



The great fact (which can never be "ridiculous" or un- 

 worthy of revelation) of the Cosmogony of Moses is, that " God 



made man in His own image ;" and this I firmly believe, let 



prove what he can, or believe what he may. But Moses does 

 not say how " The earth brought forth grass," &c, by what 

 process ; or anything more definite than the fact of an " ordained 

 becoming of living things," i.e., a creation. I cannot believe 

 that scientific facts are revealed in Scripture, and I think that 

 much mischief is done by striving to find them there. 



To . 



Ecclesfield, August 29th, 1860. 

 Here we are, arrived last night, and I am writing in my 

 bedroom before breakfast ; so I have not as yet much to tell, 

 except that " Aunt Judy " is away ; but that you knew before. 



Dr. F says Mrs. G is exactly what he expected to 



see — so I must say so too. She is slight, tallish, and intellectual 

 looking, and withal quiet ; at least, as yet, nothing very mer- 

 curial has broken out. But there is evidently the mercury 

 below the surface, and I can quite fancy her blazing up the way 



poor S used to do, when strongly excited. 



We arrived after their tea and had a new tea for ourselves. 

 Dr. Wolff is here and plied Dr. F well with talk, but I 



