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and that his faculties remained unclouded to the end. A fort- 
night before his death he had completed.a new edition (the 4th) 
of the : Sedimentary Formations of New South Wales,’ a copy 
which is on the table, and I understand that he had also 
finished the preparation of a geological map of the Colony. On 
the last day of his life he busied himsel arranging fossils, and in 
writing a letter to Professor de Koninck, of Liége, who had 
examined and named many of his specimens. This letter, through 
resting patties ‘elatinicg to hie last “lnoes : ‘ © Basinthewnites 
15th June, 1878. My dear Professor de Koninck,—You have 
doubtless expected to hear from me before this, but I have been 
sorely hindered in writing. I have before told you of my general 
weakness in health since the first days of August last ; but I did 
not anticipate such a culmination as I have since experienced, and 
from which I a m only now slowly recovering. I went with the 
Chief Engineer of Railways in the beginning of August to the 
Liverpool | Range and Plains, and visited some of my old camps in 
1851-2, returning the better for the journey to and fro. This amend- 
ment was followed by paralysis of my left side and limbs, and this 
is the second letter I have attempted since the date of the attack, 
which was the 6th of March. was seated in my arm-chair in 
this my study, when, trying to rise to get down a book, I found 
myself a prisoner bound hand and foot, and after two hours 
was useless, as I found my speech anything but intelligible. 
Knocking on the floor with my right foot brought my son from the 
garden, and I was soon attended by my usual “medico, Dr. Ward, 
and by a young friend of his, Dr. Kyngdon, who with my own son 
since chiefly rested. Dr. Kyngdon said to me, “ Put out your 
tongue,” and this done, “ observed, “ Your tongue is half 
paralyzed,’ is was intimation to me of my condition. Iam 
now, however, so far recovered as to be able to walk upstairs, step 
by step, holding the banister; but I can only come down side- 
hashes sae crab-like, with both feet on a step, the left sliding over the 
one above ; and I have once, by aid of two assistants, managed i 
visit a friend across the road. Dr. W. said to my wife 
he did not think I should recover, and now he has expres 4 
me his astonishment that I am so far towards health. I must 
edition of my ‘Remarks’ when the stroke came, and b 
the help of my son I have got it through the 2 press, I but the copies 
have not yet left the ee inting office. Thad a 
