1839-40 EPITAPH TO HARVEY’S MOTHER 175 
its laws, bye-laws, regulations, and ordinances 
to submit to my Council of State prefatory to 
printing. So that this little duty, together with 
the wish to put on record while fresh in my mind 
the peculiarities of the gigantic Saurian at Hythe, 
has made me less regret having had a quiet day 
and a half at mine inn at this place, so pleasant 
in itself and its recollections. There has been a 
fine little fellow, rising four, with just little Willie’s 
straw hat and holland over-all, who has made my 
heart jump higher than usual more than once, as 
he ran about or dug up the shingle in front of my 
window. I have had some struggle, too, to keep 
to my work, and if I had not had the sea in at 
both senses — eye and ear — I should hardly have 
had patience to finish the twentieth page of my 
Saurian memoranda ; but this huge fragment of a 
beast deserved it. It is not an Iguanodon. ... I 
had a day at Folkestone, and found out a little 
brass tablet to Harvey’s mother in the church 
aisle. She is described as a 
“ Godly, harmless Woman, 
A chaste loving Wife, 
A charitable quiet Neighbour, 
A comfortable friendly Matron, 
A provident diligent Huswyfe, 
A careful teder liarted Mother.” 
‘ I know one to whom such an epitaph would 
be as true as it doubtless was to the mother of 
the great discoverer of the circulation ; and that 
