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MEMOIR or THE LATE JOHN SCALES. 
every reader.* It is enough to say that Seales was thoroughly 
appreciative of its beauties, and his letter, doubtless, gave great 
satisfaction to his family and friends at home ; but the following 
extract deserves insertion : — 
“We are now 400 miles from Valkenswaard, and I have passed 
over 1500 miles since I left Beachamwell, and when I reacli home 
I shall have passed over nearly 2500 miles of land and water. I 
shall stay a few days at Valkenswaard to get a little rest as IMr. II.’s 
servant and myself who took it in turn to ride have walked about 
240 miles in the last eight days, and I do not feel so well as I have 
been. Mr. H. rode all the way on horseback. I shall be glad 
to reach England although I am most charmed with Switzerland 
in many points of view, and have received the highest marks of 
friendship from my friend who is quite well and desires to be 
remembered to alt. I am now exceedingly anxious to be doing 
something for myself and feel that I am losing daily the most 
valuable part of my life. 1 received a very alfectionate letter from 
Eetsy and am very desirous to be in a situation to fulfil my engage- 
ment with her. ... I suppose Mr. Haworth and Eanny have 
been to Beachamwell. ... I shall expect to find a letter 
from you at Valkenswaard. ... I wrote to Mr. Curtis a few 
days ago. ... I expect we shall reach Valkenswaard on the 
15th inst.”f 
Perhaps the most interesting fact that appears from this letter is 
Scales’s marriage-engagement, for the “ Betsy ” above mentioned 
was his future wife, as will subsequently be seen, and to her ho 
* The following list of places will indicate the route taken : — Chamouni.x, 
Col de llaline, Martign}^ Berne, Interlaken, Grindelwald, Schreidegg, Meyr* 
ingen, Griinsel, Bhone Glacier, Purka, St. Gothard, Devil’s Bridge, Altorf, 
Fluellen, Schwytz, llighi. Lucerne, Zurich. 
1 1 cannot help supposing that this may not have been his first visit to 
Valkenswaard — the seat of Falconry in Holland. Few Englishmen who have 
been there succeed in spelling its name correctly, and hardly any one succeeds 
in doing so that has not been. Hamond was there again about the end of 
1830 {cf. Trans. Norfolk and Norwich Nat. Soc. ii. p. 405, note). It may 
be observed that Mr. Salmon’s journal shews that he also made a tour 
in Holland in 1825, but about a month earlier. Whether he went to 
Valkenswaard, or whether he and Scales were at that time acquainted, 
does not appear. It was not until 1828 that Salmon began his collection of 
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