| Description | John was quite right to speak as a topographer and she recalls the beauty of the roads coming back from Lady Canning's Seat, which she resolved to explore. She describes yesterday's journey with Esther, following John's map of the route, passing a wood from where women were carring burdens of wood. Mary tried to lift such a bundle 'but could not move it half an inch'. She rested there before returning to the hotel by 6.45pm. The day before she collected Mrs Jackson and drove up the bridle road to the entrance where Esther had found the tree ferns, and she describes this. Mary has been grasping among fossil and extinct words and she sends some notes on them for John, commenting on [Isaac] Taylor's book. The midday post has delivered John's letter from station XXVI of 16 January. She refers to John's pay and provision difficulties and relays brief news and visits from Mrs Fitzgerald and Miss Cox.
With a pasted-on newspaper cutting, headed: 'Madras Railway Alteration or Trains, North West Lines'. |