The roads in these parts are much avenued with walnut trees: Fels, our courier, told me that of all trees they are most subject to be struck by lightning, and that under them is always a current of air.

I insert his information, as he is both a sensible man, and has had great opportunities of observing," &c.

&c.

Here is a gap of three years.
In 1832, my journal about Dorsetshire and the Isle of Wight is chiefly geological: as this extract shows, it was mainly a search after fossil spoils at Charmouth:--"Would you like to see a creature with the head of a lizard, wings of a bat, and tail of a serpent?
Such things have been, as these bones testify; they are called Pterodactyls, and are as big as ravens.

Thus, you see, a dragon is no chimera, but attested by a science founded on observation, Geology.