Tuesday, February 26, 1833

1833

February

Tuesday 26

1833

6

11 1/2

Sent off by John (early) my letter written and dated yesterday to ‘Miss MacLean of Coll, Aros North Britain’

F 49 1/2° at 6 just before making and lighting my fire and 37° outside the window at 7 20/.. – Rainy morning –

Read very attentively from page 126 to 143, De la Beche’s Geology –

Breakfast at 9 10/.. with my father and Marian – Had Pickels about the walling near the turnpike house – He persuaded me they would do it right, so let him go on – Said he could lower the approach road 2 or 3 feet up to the glen if I liked --  Began 60 yards off – That would be 30 yards of a yard drop and 5 yards of breadth = 150 yards to move at 6d per yard = £3.10.0 – Said I would consider about it – The road as now done falls 6 inches at a rood --  

Came upstairs at 10 5/.. – From 10 1/4 to 1 25/.., read from page 143 to 155 and from page 468 to 477 De la Beche’s Geology very attentively, consulting maps, and the geological sections –

Had a few minutes nap between 11 and 12 – 

Soon after 1 Throp sent 100 oaks and acorns – Went down to speak to John – Too rainy for out of doors work, so returned to my room to read over again the latter part Sir Humphry Davy’s Consolations in Travel, and Soame Jenyns’s Essay to prove time is nothing, and then made notes from Latrobe’s Travels in Switzerland before and after dinner, and before and after read from page 146 to 278 of the same –

Charles and James Howarth all the day in the library.

Dinner at 6 10/.. Went into the other room at 9 1/2 – Rainy morning – Rather better, merely hazy and damp and very small rain, between 10 and 12, but afterwards thoroughly rainy afternoon – Read a little of the Courier – Came to my room at 10 40/.. F 49°.

WYAS Finding Numbers SH:7/ML/E/16/0023