scenery is exquisitely beautiful; we exhausted ourselves and
our epithets in exclamations, and the day seemed made for the
magnificent view from the Wynd Cliff, and then we came to
Tintern Abbey! How often we wished for our Chedder party--how
often we talked over the pleasure we would have in admiring
all this beauty with them, and how often, like spoiled
children, we wondered why all this enjoyment should not have
accompanied us to Monmouth! but good-night, my very dear
friends--I shall leave the letter in better hands for
finishing, I am so sleepy!!

[Mr. Ramsay]--We have seen many things of which the ingenious
and very learned Dr. Woodward would say that they were "great
ornaments to our ponds and ditches." But of this enough, and
more than enough. Allow me to take this opportunity of
expressing my satisfaction at finding how completely Mrs.
E.B.R enters into the friendship which has so long existed
between _us_, and at seeing how fully prepared she is to
appreciate your kindness to myself and her; in short, to find
that she loves you all now, as if she had known you as long
as I have. May we never lose sight of these feelings! We saw
Oxford to-day--a good thing, but in detail not equal to
Cambridge--in general effect far superior. Gloster pleased
me: the tower and cloisters surpassingly fine. People do not
roar enough about the steeple of St. Mary's, Oxford--it is
_the finest_ in England, superior I think to that of
Salisbury. Are you aware that there is a modern church at
Oxford in the pure Norman style? My visit to Frome has given
me (except in parting) unmixed satisfaction. I cannot say how
much I have been gratified, and with what pleasure I look