He is an old man, but not much over sixty; his hair is white, but he is full of vigor, short and stout, like almost all Englishmen and Englishwomen.

I have met only two women taller than myself, and most of them are very much shorter.

Dr.Arnott told me he was only now finishing the 'Elements,' which he first published in 1827.

He intends now to publish the more mathematical portions with the other volumes.

He was very sociable, and I told him he had twenty years ago a great many readers in America.