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Rh forward, and not having immediate access to each book or paper at the moment when wanted.

January 4th.—Spent the evening at my brother's. Sir Wm. Watson and Mr. Wilson were there.

February llth.—My brother went to Bath to make some stay there, having taken a house on Sion Hill.

February 26th.—Mrs. Herschel, Miss Cobet, and the servants left Slough for Bath. Russell, the horse-keeper, and his wife, were, along with me, left in charge of the house, from which I seldom was absent at any other time but to go to dinner at my lodging every day at one o'clock.

March 29th.—The Prince of Orange stepped in to ask some questions about planets, &c.

LordKirkwall and a gentleman came to see the instruments.

April 1st.—My brother arrived at Slough, and on the llth he took a paper to the E. S., which he brought with him for me to copy in the clear. The fine nights were spent with sweeping.

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