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calling to Edensor on the way. My pupils were Cleasby Marshman,,
Clinton, Wigram, Tottenham and Smith of M.. To Keswick I passed three
months very happily. I frequently saw the family of Mr Southey, and Mr
Wordsworth is every now and then. From continuous excursions in the
neighbourhood, and from some places excursions as distant as
Bowness, Calder Bridge & the c. (always climbing the intermediary one
mountains), I made well the knowledge of almost the whole one of that
beautiful country, omitting some of the S. the valleys of W.. A geologic
hammer and a barometer of mountain were very interesting companions. ME
it had a lot of job with my pupils: I worked Theory a few Lunar, a
few of the Equations of Laplace, anything of the Figure of the Earth,
and I very attentively wrote out my Trigonometry for the Encyclopaedia
Subway. I read some Machiavelli and the various books
what me taken in loan of Mr Southey. Friday, Sept. 30, my brother and
I went away for Kendal, and after a stay of some days to Edensor, it arrived
to Cambridge on Oct. 11.
"On Oct. 21 my Lectures to the Sophs Minore started, 39 names, lasting
to Dec. 13. That to the Sophs Senior, 16 names, Oct 29 to
Dec. 10. I also examined Questionists as last year. I have notes
on a Paper on the connection of impact and pressure, reads to the
Philosophical society on Nov. 14, but not printed, dish palpation of the liver-needle
problems, curve described round three centers of strength barometer,
observations, theory of the Figure of the Earth with varying density,
and it effects on the Moon, correction to the pendulum of Madras wedges with
the attrition, stains seen in my eyes the density of rays near a caustic. In
this term I brought defeasible the preparation of a volume of Mathematician
Draws on subjects that, or from their absolute deficiency in the
University or from the illegible form in which they had been
introduced, it seemed to be wanted. The subjects of my Lines were,
Lunar theory (started Oct. 26, ended Nov. 1), figure of the Earth
(1 part ended Nov. 18), precession and Nutation (my old man Mrs. puts