Capitolo 74
an inexplicable event stopped all the procedures. The basket
containing all the important tools was brought above to the surface
(in my presence) on fire; some of the tools were fallen out with
their cases burning. If a superstitious miner intentionally had
shoots him/it, or if the tobacco of a candle had been thrown in him, it is
I don't notice. Our jobs now you/he/she was made useless. The 28 I packaged
on what he/she remained of tools, gone away for Truro and it arrived to Buries
July 1. During our stay in Cornwall I had frequented a 'the ticketing'
or sale of mineral metallic to Camborne, and we had made the consignments to the
N.W. Coast, to Portreath and Illogan, to Marazion and St Michael
Mountains, and to Penzance and the End of the Earth. July 3 I saw Mr
Cropley in Buries gaol, and it went to Cambridge. The 4 I was admitted
In the morning, and the 5 Notable Individual was admitted.
"I had hocked with four pupils to go to Orleans in this Long
Vacation: my brother William you have to also go. One of my pupils, Dobbs,
doesn't connect: the other three were Tinkler, Ogilby and Ibbotson. Us
gone street London July 9 and travelled of Brighton, Dieppe, Rouen and
Paris to Orleans. To Paris I saw Bouvard, Pouillet Laplace and
Arago. I had Peacock introductions of Mr, South of Mr, Mr Herschel Dr
Young; and from Teacher Sedgwick to a resident English, Mr
Underwood. The 19 I was established in the house of M. Lagarde,
Protestant Minister. Here I received my pupils. The 28 me
Italian started with an Italian master: I would perhaps have done
more cautiously in to stick to French, for me I didn't make great progress. On
August. 2 I saw an assassin guillotined in the Place Martroi. The
principal investigations on my quires are--the Investigations around
pendulums, Calculation of Variations, Notes for the Figure of the Earth
(Encyc. Metrop.) and principle of the article, vaporize-motor
apparatus, & the c. I picked up the various ballads French, reads the various books,
found copies of the Marseillaise (this self I was forced for getting rather