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CHAPTER 1
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Such is wit at 10 1/2 years old.
The memory now flashes across me of the pleasure I had in the evening on a blowy day walking along the beach by myself and seeing the gulls and cormorants wending their way home in a wild and irregular course.

Such poetic pleasures, felt so keenly in after years, I should not have expected so early in life.
1820, July.
Went a riding tour (on old Dobbin) with Erasmus to Pistyll Rhiadr (Chapter I./7.

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.
(Chapter I./8.

The autobiographical fragment here comes to an end.

The next letters give some account of Darwin as an Edinburgh student.


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