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CONT. JULY 26

pourtrayed. There are some good pictures by Rubens, by Crayer & others & some bad ones by modern native copyists of the French or teaboard school, in which Nature is represented not as she is but as they think she ought to be.

The botanical garden has some very curious & fine trees & plants & a very polite young curator who presented my wife & Martha with a beautiful bouquet of flowers culled as we proceeded. This was the pleasantest half hour of the day but we exhausted the patience of Mr & Mrs Leyburn who are not botanists or admirers of flowers.

The university has a good theatre or lecture room, and is altogether a highly respectable building. The mean & paltry feeling of “Les Braves Belges” is shown in their erasing the name of William, King of Holland, who built it, from the

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