Volume 58: Sir George Macleay correspondence, 1848-1880: No. 404
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but those which affected me most at the time. I feel gaged on them & you are identified with most of them. The first, Bell bird [indecipherable] gave poor Berkeley & I ran down a Kangaroo. Then second, Illawarra scenes, more especially the fine view from the Mountain top. Then the fine view of the Murrumbidgee Flats where with [indecipherable] & so over. Thank God nature still has the same charms for me. Perhaps now I enjoy them more now in my old age than I did when I was younger, while the work of man becomes daily less interesting. I was [indecipherable] to find how weary flat stale & inhospitable the French Exhibition seemed to me. I was in Paris a week & grudged the portions of two days which I gave to it. How touching what you say of