Sunday, April 2, 1837
1837
April
Sunday 2
8 35/..
12 25/..
Longish not very good one last night. Very fine morning; Fahrenheit 57° in the sun now at 9
35/.. a.m. Ann off to the school 20 minutes
ago – Walked – Hard frost in the night – too slippery for the ponies – Breakfast
–
From 10 1/2 to 1 55/.., sat
reading through (blue room) the Gentleman’s Magazine of last month – Came
last night – Some very interesting articles – On the Phoenician descent of
the Celts and Pelasgi – Etymology of Troy weight uncia or ounce, etc.,
etc. Campanari’s Etruscan antiquities
now shewing in London – Sir William Bentham, Ulster King at Arms, on ring money,
etc., etc., pages 372, 375 . . . . .
Off to church at 2 10/.. –
Mr. Wilkinson did all the duty (service just began before we arrived). Preached 20 minutes from Matthew xxviii.5 –
3/4 hour at Cliff hill – Ann had Samuel Washington there, who brought her the
plan of coal got by Illingworth as measured in the bottom by Holt at Shugden Head.
Home at 5 35/.. – Sat reading
in blue room (Ann downstairs) the Architectural Magazine of last month that came
last night – 1st and very interesting article by Dr. Ure on heating and
ventilating apartments –
Dinner at 6 35/..Coffee – Read
tonight’s (double) London paper (Morning Herald) –
Came upstairs at 9 1/2, at which
hour, Fahrenheit 35° – Fine day –
Then arranging bills etc.
till 10 50/.. –
WYAS Finding Number SH:7/ML/E/20/0042
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