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Excerpt from Botanical Miscellany, Vol. 2: Containing Figures and Descriptions of Such Plants as Recommend Themselves by Their Novelty, Rarity, or History, or by the Use to Which They Are Applied in the Arts, in Medicine, and in Domestic OEconomy; Together With Occasional Botanical Notices and Info
My last interview with Capt. Carmichael was in the sum mer of 1826, when I invited him to join an excursion with the students of my class, which it was proposed should ex tend that year to Icolmkill, Staffa, and others of the more northern islands of the Hebrides. He met us in our vessel, immediately opposite his residence, when we proceeded to Mull, Skye, and thence, returning through the Sound of Mull, we visited fortawilliam, Ben Nevis, and the majestic scenery of Glencoe. But it was easy to see that disease had made rapid progress in his constitution. His spirits were depressed, and his strength did not enable him to undergo any of the fatiguing ascents of the mountains; nor, at all times, to go ashore among the islands. But he brought a beautiful set of drawings of Confervm, and other Algae, and while showing and describing these to the more zealous botanists of our party, his powers of mind seemed to be as vigorous as ever, and the interest which the subject possessed for him, appeared almost to reanimate his drooping frame.
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