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being made in Paris. He and I went to Mr. Thomas, 

 carriage builder, in St. Anne Street, Liverpool. Thomas 

 said that he had not seen one, but could build one, and he 

 soon did so. There were two light wooden carriage wheels 

 of nearly the same size, the larger (front one) being 

 twenty-three inches in diameter. A heavy spring, nearly 

 three feet long, supported the saddle. The pedals were 

 of solid brass, triangular in shape. The wheels being 

 small gave an idea of speed, but I do not think that it ran 

 above eight miles an hour. When it came home, I said I 

 would have a larger one, and ordered it to have a front 

 wheel of twenty-five inches. A fork in front supported 

 the legs when going down hill. I rode through Perth- 

 shire on mine in company with my younger brother, 

 Edwin. The folk ran from the fields to see us pass. Such 

 was the old bone-shaker." 



Isaac Thompson was an active cyclist to the end, and 

 in recent years made several pleasant cycling tours with 

 members of his family, both in this country and abroad. 

 He keenly enjoyed travel in foreign countries, and every- 

 where he went had an eye to the Natural History, brought 

 back specimens, and met interesting friends. He 

 travelled through Norway in early days, was in Switzer- 

 land in 1868 — where he met Professor Tyndall, and 

 returned with him through France — visited the United 

 States and Canada in 187b' — when he was much interested 

 in the exploration of the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky — 

 and again in 1884, when he went through the Yellowstone 

 National Park with his friend, Sir Oliver Lodge ; 

 traversed the Mediterranean, for the first time, in 1877, 

 and made interesting remarks in his diary as to the 

 Physalia, and other forms of surface life, that he 

 observed ; did the Pyrenees in 1880, Donegal, Holland, 

 Germany, Austria, &c, in the eighties, and made several 



