Since writing that letter the spring and summer are approaching fast, and the days increasing.

Of course I can employ more of the time than in the winter.

Mr.Leslie and myself rise at five o'clock in the morning and walk about a mile and a half to Burlington, where are the famous Elgin Marbles, the works of Phidias and Praxiteles, brought by Lord Elgin from Athens.

From these we draw three hours every morning, wet or dry, before breakfast, and return home just as the bustle begins in London, for they are late risers in London.

When we go out of a morning we meet no one but the watchman, who goes his rounds for an hour and a half after we are up.