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 LETTER VIII.

O be in London, and not to have been at the International Exhibition, will, I fear, be held at Sydney a reflection on the intelligence of your correspondent As truth is a precious thing, however, in this nineteenth century, especially in a confession that narrows the range of one's knowledge, I must frankly acknowledge I have not yet seen what so many Australian colonists have come so far to see. In what degree this is to be attributed to a perverseness of nature—for I never was fond of running with the stream—it would not, perhaps, be safe for me to say. When the wonderment of the Japanese ambassadors and the Honorables from the Antipodes is over, I may go and see the glories which