Nature has done much for the inhabitants of Mount's Bay, by presenting to their senses all things that can awaken in the mind the emotions of greatness and sublimity. She has placed them far from cities, and given them forms of visible and audible beauty.
I am now reviving old associations, and endeavouring to attach old feelings to a few simple objects.
I am, &c.
H. Davy.
Although the letter which follows is without date, I am unwilling to withhold it.
TO THOMAS POOLE, ESQ.
MY DEAR POOLE,
I have been for some weeks absent from London, and have only just received your letter. When I return in the winter, I shall be glad to see Mr. A.— I regret that your niece is so much indisposed. Lady Davy has been obliged to change her climate in consequence of a long-continued cough, but I am happy in being able to say she is now quite well.
After the fatigues of a long season in London, I am now enjoying the Highland scenery and sports with a purer pleasure, and I find, after the Alps and Pyrenees, even the mountains of Scotland possessing some peculiar beauties. You ought to come and see this country, which you would enjoy, both as a lover of nature and of man. The one is grand and beautiful; the other, moral, active, and independent.
I am, my dear Poole, your obliged friend,
H. Davy.
The Philosophical Transactions, during the Presidency of Sir Humphry Davy, evince the alacrity with which he redeemed the pledge given to the Society in his address on taking the chair—