in Scotland, and we drove by Queensferry to Kinross
(where for the first time in my life I saw clouds
on the hills,
viz. on the Lomond Hills), and
so to Perth. Thence by Dunkeld and Killicrankie
to Blair Athol (the dreariness of the Drumochter Pass
made a strong impression on me), and by Aviemore (where
I saw snow on the mountains) to Inverness. Here
we received much kindness and attention from Mr Reach,
and after visiting the Falls of Foyers and other sights
we went to Fort Augustus and Fort William. We
ascended Ben Nevis, on which there was a great deal
of snow, and visited the vitrified fort in Glen Nevis.
Then by Inverary to Tarbet, and ascended Ben Lomond,
from whence we had a magnificent view. We then
passed by Loch Achray to Glasgow, where we found James
Parker’s brother (his father, of the house of
Macinroy and Parker, being a wealthy merchant of Glasgow).
On June 15th to Mr Parker’s house at Blochairn,
near Glasgow (on this day I heard Dr Chalmers preach),
and on the 17th went with the family by steamer (the
first that I had seen) to Fairly, near Largs.
I returned the gig to Edinburgh, visited Arran and
Bute, and we then went by coach to Carlisle, and by
Penrith to Keswick (by the old road: never shall
I forget the beauty of the approach to Keswick).
After visiting Ambleside and Kendal we returned to
Cambridge by way of Leeds, and posted to Bury on the
28th June. The expense of this expedition was
about
L81. It opened a completely new world
to me.
“I had little time to rest at Bury. In
the preceding term Drinkwater, Buckle, and myself,
had engaged to go somewhere into the country with
pupils during the Long Vacation (as was customary with
Cambridge men). Buckle however changed his mind.
Drinkwater went to look for a place, fixed on Swansea,
and engaged a house (called the Cambrian Hotel, kept
by a Captain Jenkins). On the morning of July
2nd I left Bury for London and by mail coach to Bristol.
On the morning of July 3rd by steamer to Swansea,
and arrived late at night. I had then five pupils:
Parker, Harman Lewis (afterwards Professor in King’s
College, London), Pierce Morton, Gibson, and Guest
of Caius (afterwards Master of the College).
Drinkwater had four, viz. two Malkins (from Bury),
Elphinstone (afterwards M.P.), and Farish (son of Professor
Farish). We lived a hard-working strange life.
My pupils began with me at six in the morning:
I was myself reading busily. We lived completely
en famille, with two men-servants besides the
house establishment. One of our first acts was
to order a four-oared boat to be built, fitted with
a lug-sail: she was called the Granta of Swansea.
In the meantime we made sea excursions with boats borrowed
from ships in the port. On July 23rd, with a borrowed
boat, we went out when the sea was high, but soon
found our boat unmanageable, and at last got into
a place where the sea was breaking heavily over a
shoal, and the two of the crew who were nearest to