
          I must renew my former correspondence 
only by degrees, like
a steam carriage. I must grunt 
and move off slowly. There is however
this difference that during 
my long dormancy, I have lost so
much vigour, that I may never
attain the speed of even my former
medium, far less my maximum.

I shall not transport my family
books, and herbarium to the smoky
atmosphere of Glasgow for a year 
at least
owning to [crossed out: Gla?] [added: three] Irish colleges about
to be instituted for medicine. I expect
in a couple of years to have no students
to lecture to, five sixths of
those at present at Glasglow being
Irish. Some years there are none other.
The Scotch, even the Glasglow ones,
prefer Edinburgh as while attending
botany, they have other medical 
        