great deal of misery and
excitement. When I have been to Thurso and Kirkwall I shall
return as quick as possible, and shall be glad to get out of
the country. As I am here, however, I wish to see all I can,
for I never wish to return. Whilst in Mull I lived very
cheaply--it is not costing me more than seven shillings a day.
The generality of the inns, however, in the lowlands are
incredibly dear--half-a-crown for breakfast, consisting of a
little tea, a couple of small eggs, and bread and butter--_two_
shillings for attendance. Tell Hen that I have some moss for
her from Benmore--also some seaweed from the farther shore of
Icolmkill. God bless you.

GEORGE BORROW.

I do not possess any diaries or notebooks covering the period of the
following letters. The diary which covers this period is mentioned in
the bibliography attached to Dr. Knapp's _Life of Borrow_, which, with
the rest of Dr. Knapp's Borrow papers, is now in the possession of the
Hispanic Society, New York.

THURSO, _21st Nov. 1858._

MY DEAR CARRETA,--I reached this place on Friday night, and was
glad enough to get your kind letter. I shall be so glad to get
home to you. Since my last letter to you I have walked nearly
160 miles. I was terribly taken in with respect to
distances--however, I managed to make my way. I have been to
Johnny Groat's House, which is about twenty-two miles from this
place. I had tolerably fine weather all the way, but within two
or three miles of that place a terrible storm arose; the next
day the country was covered with ice and snow. There is at
present here a kind of Greenland winter, colder almost than I
ever knew the winter in Russia. The streets are so covered with
ice that it is dangerous to step out; to-morrow D. and I pass
over into Orkney, and we shall take the first steamer to
Aberdeen and Inverness, from whence I shall make the best of my
way to England. It is well that I have no farther to walk, for
walking now is almost impossible--the last twenty miles were
terrible, and the weather is worse now than it was then. I was
terribly deceived with respect to steamboats. I was told that
one passed over to Orkney every day, and I have now been
waiting two days, and there is not yet one. I have had quite
enough of Scotland. When I