Excerpt from The Life of Joseph Blanco White, Vol. 1 of 3 The sources from which the remainder of the Work, Part III., has been derived, the whole of the two last volumes, and a considerable part of the first, are his Journals; the Note-books in which he re corded reflections on his reading, and thoughts sug gested by his own Life; such portions of his Corre spondence as were accessible, and chance entries in pocket-books and almanacks. The beautiful passage at the commencement of the second volume, on the Menai Bridge as the subject of a Poem, was found pencilled on old tablets long disused and forgotten. It would have been easy to give to this Part more of the appearance of continued narrative, by placing the Extracts from such various sources in a cement of connecting observation but, considering the fami liarity with the recording Mind which the reader will have acquired in the first two Parts, this did not appear necessary for their full and ready comprehen sion; and admonished by his. Remembrances of the unhappy effect in biography of unneeded helps, the Editor has abstained, wherever it was possible, from interposing himself between the Subject of these Me moirs and the eye of the reader. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.