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kind of velocipede chair. She is a most cheerful 

 person, as you may well imagine when I tell you 

 that she has saved some men's lives during wrecks 

 on the coast near her cottage. I was told that on 

 stormy nights, when vessels are in danger, she 

 has wheeled herself through the pelting rain or 

 snow to the seaside, and animated the fishermen 

 and others by her example and rewards to exer- 

 tions, which otherwise they would have shrunk 

 from, but without which the wrecked seamen must 

 have perished. Her attractions to me were a fine 

 collection of the bones from the cliffs and shingle, 

 which she and a sister, now dead, occupied them- 

 selves in collecting, and which is now the most 

 instructive one in Norfolk.' 



On October 24 Owen received a second speci- 

 men of the pearly nautilus. It was sent by Cap- 

 tain Belcher, and was in its original shell. This 

 enabled him to verify his former observations 

 on the subject. The ' Nautilus pompilius ' was 

 taken on the following evening to the Zoological 

 Society. Captain Belcher also brought with him 

 a babyroussa (a large species of hog from the 

 Indian Archipelago). ' He says that on the 

 voyage it ate up quantities of the men's brass 

 buttons and chin straps and is none the worse 

 for it.' 



An entry on October 30 gives an idea of the 

 price of carriage at that time. A Lancaster friend 

 intended to do Mrs. Owen a kindness by sending 



