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Rh until the complete extrication was concluded, a space of from one and a half to two minutes elapsed.

There is literally but little exaggeration in the concluding sentence of the quotation from 'the Edinburgh.' If not "covered" with the "filmy skins of the gay Ephemerae," I had at least several scores, if not hundreds, attached to me; many of them so firmly, that they still hung on when I reached home, having walked a mile, and part of the way through a plantation.

June 16.—I was by the Whitadder. There were clouds of the same insect, but not so dense as on the previous evening.

June 17.—By the Tweed. Not one to be seen.

June 18.—By the Whitadder; but not out so late. Two or three only. And on dates subsequent to this, a few seen occasionally. .

— Robert Embleton; Embleton, February 27, 1843.