pportunity of recommending the work to those who enter his shop, which
is very splendid and commodious.

In many instances, when the peasants of the neighbourhood have come with
the intention of purchasing some of the foolish popular story-books of
Spain, he has persuaded them in lieu thereof to carry home Testaments,
assuring them that it was not only a better and more instructive, but
even a far more entertaining book than those they came in quest of. He
has taken a great fancy to me, and comes to visit me every evening, when
he accompanies me in my walks about the town and environs. Every one who
is aware how rare it is to meet with friendship and cordiality in Spain
will easily conceive my joy at finding such a coadjutor, and I have no
doubt that when I am absent he will exert himself as much, and I hope as
effectually, as now that I am present.

I leave Saint James to-morrow for Pontevedra and Vigo, carrying with me
some Testaments which I hope to dispose of, notwithstanding there are no
booksellers in those places. I shall then return to Corunna, either by
Compostella or by some other route. I trust the Lord will preserve me in
this journey as He has done in others. From Corunna I propose to travel
through the mountains to Oviedo in the Asturias, provided that town be
not speedily in the hands of the factious. By the time these lines reach
you, you will doubtless have heard of the irruption of a part of the
Pretender's hordes into Old Castile; they have carried everything before
them, and have sacked and taken possession of the city of Segovia,
distant only one day's march from Madrid. From the aspect of things I
should say that the miseries of this land, far from having reached their
climax, are but commencing. Yet let no one mourn for Egypt: she is but
paying the price of her sorceries and superstitions.

(UNSIGNED.)

_P.S._--At San Sebastian I shall need Davison's Turkish Grammar, which
you have in the Library. It will be of assistance to me in editing the
Basque St. Luke; the two languages are surprisingly connected.

To the Rev. A. Brandram

(_Endorsed_: recd. Oct. 9, 1837)
CORUNNA, _Sep._ 15, 1837.

REVD. AND DEAR SIR,--About ten days have elapsed since my return to
Corunna. I stated in my last letter, from Compostella, that it was my