my dear brother if you find me all that you may be very well satisfied and as wonders never cease in this nineteenth century perhaps I may yet help you to come out with a three volumed world's wonder in the way of an historical account of life amongst the cannibals or the experiences of a forty year settler in the Antipodes. How glorious to hear of my reflective brother turning an author. I somehow have a faint idea that you have something the kind in contemplation. How are things getting on at the McLean station? I suppose with Archy's energy it will be quite a "paradise" of beauty blooming with flowers and fragrant roses, teaming with delicious fruits, and his fond wife or loving sisters there to enjoy them and