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Bordeaux as soon as possible, for, should the revolution turn out to be a 
bloody one, there might be great difficulty in getting across Spain, and 
a sea voyage to England was somewhat uncertain ; so, acting on the 
advice I had received, I left Lisbon on the evening of the 10th, -and 
on the evening of the 12th reached the frontier of France. The revo- 
lution burst into being on the morning of the 14th, but by that time I 
was in London. 
[I have here to apologise for thus publishing these brief and hur- 
ried notes of a pleasant tour. They were to have formed portion, and 
that but a small one, of ‘‘ Notes of our Tour,’’ which were to have been 
written by my friend, Mr. A. H. Haliday. I kept them back until they 
were required to enable me to send this volume to the press. The illness 
of my friend still forbidding him to complete his part of what was 
meant to be our joint work, I felt bound to redeem my promise to the 
Natural History Society, and hence the publication of these Notes in 
their present imperfect form. This will also account for the reference 
to some species that have been published after these Notes were read, 
but before the date of their going to press. | 
