defendant, says he was himself a witness in the
case, and has had pride in repeating to his own
children what the Chief Justice said of his
father.
117. The "limpet on the rock" and the "green
boots" refer to a wonderful piece by Turner in
the previous year's Academy, exhibiting a rock
overhanging a magnificent sea, a booted figure
appearing on the rock, and at its feet a blotch
to represent a limpet: the subject being
Napoleon at St. Helena.
168. "Assumption" is substituted for "Transfiguration."
182. Six words are added to the first note.
193, 194. An error in my former statement of
the circumstances of Mr. Fletcher's death,
which I much regret to have made, is now
corrected.
195. The proper names of the ship and her
captain are here given, as the Fantome,
commanded by Sir Frederick (now Vice-Admiral)
Nicolson.
229. A correspondent familiar with Lausanne
informs me that the Castle of Chillon is not
visible from Rosemont, and that Dickens in
these first days must have mistaken some other
object for it. "A long mass of mountain hides
Chillon from view, and it only becomes visible
when you get about six miles from Lausanne on
the Vevay road, when a curve in the road or
lake shows it visible behind the bank of
mountains." The error at p. 257, now corrected,
was mine.
247. "Clinking," the right word, replaces
"drinking."
263. A passage which stood in the early
editions is removed, the portrait which it
referred to having been not that of the lady
mentioned, but of a relative bearing the same
name.
267, 268. I quote a letter to myself from one
of the baronet's family present at the outbreak
goodnaturedly exaggerated in Mr. Cerjat's
account to Dickens. "I well remember the dinner
at Mr. Cerjat's alluded to in one of the
letters from Lausanne i
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