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This evening there was a voluntary parade for a lecture on the Prismatic Compass I was there for there was one or two points that I wanted to clear up & I got the information this evening it is a most interesting subject & at the same time most useful, I intend to master it thoroughly before I return
There are quite a number of nightingales round here & you can here them singing of an evening after the sun has gone down, no doubt they have a sweet voice & plenty of notes but they are not what they are cracked up to be there are plenty of Australian birds that I prefer, they talk or used to about the sweet singing of the birds in this part of the world, why I have scarce heard any, save the lark & an odd bullfinch, blackbird, & an odd nightingale or two, where you