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