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LETTERS FROM 
confinement would be most wearisome, espe¬ 
cially to those who have but few in-door 
pursuits, and to whom the employment of 
collecting shells and insects would be an 
absolute punishment. 
This letter will be sent by the Flamer, 
which is daily expected to call here on her 
homeward-bound passage from Corfu. I will 
write again by the next packet, which will 
leave Malta in about one month from this 
date. 
