Memoir of Edward Forbes, F.R.S., late Regius Professor of Natural History in the University of Edinburgh / by George Wilson and Archibald Geikie.

Date:
1861
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Credit: Memoir of Edward Forbes, F.R.S., late Regius Professor of Natural History in the University of Edinburgh / by George Wilson and Archibald Geikie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    1831. changing the 32d and 33d-days of August to 1st and 2d September, we find the journal to commence on “ S. 18,” Saturday the 18th June, when he left the Isle of Man, reaching London on the 21st. The year is still to identify ; but by a reference to the king and queen (William iv. and Adelaide), and to the coronation pro- cession which he witnessed, T. 6 (Tuesday [?] Septem- ber 16th), it must have been 1831. Some extracts from the journal will illustrate its character. Here is the second entry, one of quite unusual length, describing the journey from Liverpool to London :— “ S. 19.—Breakfast. Bill, 14s. ; started by Bang up at eight; met Mr. C ; fine houses, but no strand ; railroad; a steam-coach and train passed; surprising, wonderful; a passenger with air-cushion ; good compan- ions ; Prescot; Warrington ; high cultivation, and flat but fertile country ; bought a veal-pie ; new road to ; aqueducts often destroyed by frost and thaw; plenty of wood ; all sandstone; roses, generally blush ; curious cot- tages ; Knutsford ; very few parish churches ; a populous country; churches generally fine; country more hilly ; Staffordshire ; magnificent view ; potteries ; Newcastle [under Lyne]; military to keep down the colliers ; women and girls generally good-looking, being often pretty, not handsome owing to awry (?) noses ; dinner not fit to eat; starved; got a biscuit, and wine and water; country still very fine; population increasing ; country magni- ficent, like one great park ; Stone ; Marquis of Stafford’s beautiful; Stafford ; fine town ; Hall and Hospital; good houses; fine town altogether; Penkridge; small town ; Wolverhampton; now for smoke, coal, and iron; no