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in order to make his final notes on the remains 

 there preserved, and also visited Lyme Regis, 

 and the quarries at Street, in Somersetshire. He 

 writes to his wife from Bristol on August 21, from 

 the ' White Lion,' Broad Street, ' with a coffee- 

 room pen : ' ' After a tedious passage of more 

 than thirty hours (instead of twenty) I arrived 

 here this afternoon at four.' He then says he is 

 leaving for Street and Lyme Regis, and hopes to 

 return to London by Friday morning. Referring 

 to Bristol, he says : ' I posted out on a voyage of 

 discovery to the Philosophical Institution. . . . 

 The old man [Stutchbury] was out, but expected 

 in soon. So I asked for the museum and busied 

 myself with notes on Sauria till he arrived. His 

 first exclamation was characteristic : " Well, I've 

 heard and read a deal about you, let's see what 

 you're like ; " and he brought me by both 

 shoulders to the window and scrutinised accord- 

 ingly. I stayed with him till eight, chiefly in the 

 museum, where I saw all I wanted. . . . The 

 Avon near Bristol, or I should say Clifton, is 

 equal to the best Rhine scenery.' 



Owen reached Birmingham on August 27, 

 1839, and stayed with his old friend Middlemore 

 at 23 Temple Row. He contracted a severe 

 chill on his journey there, however, and ' went to 

 bed early, took, by my host's advice, some colchi- 

 cum and opium, and had a better night. . . . 

 Have been honoured with an invitation to dinner 



