would bring me back to Dublin; however,
to prevent accidents, have the kindness to enclose me an order
on the Post Office, Londonderry, for five pounds. I expect to
be there next Monday, and to be home by the end of the week.
Glad enough I shall be to get back to you and Hen. I got your
letter at Galway. What you said about poor Flora was
comforting--pray take care of her. Don't forget the order. I
hope to write in a day or two a kind of duplicate of this. I
send Hen. heath from Connemara, and also seaweed from a bay of
the Atlantic. I have walked across Ireland; the country people
are civil; but I believe all classes are disposed to join the
French. The idolatry and popery are beyond conception. God
bless you, dearest.

GEORGE BORROW.

Love to Hen. and poor Flora. (Keep this.)

FOOTNOTES:

[193] Borrow had _The Sleeping Bard_ printed at his own expense in Great
Yarmouth in 1860, Mr. Murray giving his imprint on the title-page. See
Chapter XXXV. p. 404

[194] Which will be published in my edition of _Borrow's Collected
Works_.

[195] Mr. James Barren of _The Inverness Courier_ informs me that Borrow
took a well-known route between Fort Augustus and Badenoch, although
nowadays it is rarely used, as Wade's Road has been abandoned; it is
very dilapidated. It was not quite so bad, he says, in 1858.

[196] Mr. Barron points out to me that as there was no direct railway
communication Borrow must have gone to Aberdeen or Huntly, and returned
from the latter town to Inverness. He must have taken a steamer from
Tobermory to Fort William, and thence probably walked by Glen Spean and
Laggan to Kingussie. After that he must have traversed one of the passes
leading by Ben Macdhui or the Cairngorms to Aberdeenshire.

[197] Mr. Sheriff Robertson's son kindly sends me the following extract
from the diary of his father, James Robertson, Sheriff of Orkney:

'_Friday, 26th November, 1858._--In the evening Geo. Petrie called with
"Bible Borrow." He is a man about 60, upwards of six feet in height, and
of an athletic though somewhat gaunt frame. His hair is pure white
though a little bit thin on the top, his features high and handsome, and
his complexion ruddy and healthy. He was dressed in black, his surtout
was old, his shoes very muddy. He spoke in a loud tone of voice, knows
Gaelic and Irish well, quoted Ian Lom, Duncan Ban M'Intyre, etc., is