12/108 Such is wit at 10 1/2 years old. Such poetic pleasures, felt so keenly in after years, I should not have expected so early in life. Pistyll Rhiadr proceeds from Llyn Pen Rhiadr down the Llyfnant to the Dovey.); of this I recollect little, an indistinct picture of the fall, but I well remember my astonishment on hearing that fishes could jump up it. The autobiographical fragment here comes to an end. The next letters give some account of Darwin as an Edinburgh student. |