
          We came down the Rhine, stopping at Cologne to see the
 magnificent cathedral,  to Dusseldorf & Arnheim & so to
 Amsterdam. Dr. Gray had letters to Prof. Miguel, & [added: to] his
 very agreeable surprise found Robert Brown with him. 
 We passed a very agreable [agreeable] evening at Prof. Miguel's, with him
 & some of the other professors there, and the next morning
 they visited together the Botanic Garden. There is a very
 fine gallery of paintings at Amsterdam containing many
 works of the Dutch Masters, and I was exceedingly interested
 in them. From Amsterdam we went to Leyden where
 we saw Prof. De Friese. Blume was not at home, but Dr.
 Schultis his assistant was very attentive. We visited there
 the museum, which is especially valuable in skeletons & birds.
 Then we went to the museum of Dr. Siebold. He does not live
 at Leyden, where he only makes occasional visits, but on the
 Rhine. The museum is a most interesting collection of Japanese
 things of every sort, from temples & idols to cooking utensils; &
 the wonder & pleasure is some what increased on looking
 at them from the idea that the poor man's head would have
 been taken off if he had been discovered in carrying away from
 the country one of the gold pieces of money, to say nothing of the
 ship load of other things of every sort & description. We
 made an excursion to the Hague to see the gallery of paintings
 there. And Sunday Evg. [Evening] took a stroll in the old botanic
 garden of Leyden, adorned with busts of Linnaeus, Clusius, &c. 
 & boasting a tree mentioned by Linnaeus. The one that 
 Boeshave planted is unhappily blown down. We visited the
 ancient room in the Academy, hung with the portraits of all 
        