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visit in the country. That evening we had at Henslow's a 

 brilliant party of all the geniuses in Cambridge, and a most 

 remarkable set of men they most assuredly are. On Saturday 

 I rode over to L. Jenyns', and spent the morning with him. 

 I found him very cheerful, but bitterly complaining of his 

 solitude. On Saturday evening dined at one of the Colleges, 

 played at bowls on the College Green after dinner, and was 

 deafened with nightingales singing. Sunday, dined in Trinity ; 

 capital dinner, and was very glad to sit by Professor Lee* . . . ; 

 I find him a very pleasant chatting man, and in high spirits 

 like a boy, at having lately returned from a living or a curacy, 

 for seven years in Somersetshire, to civilised society and 

 oriental manuscripts. He had exchanged his living to one 

 within fourteen miles of Cambridge, and seemed perfectly 

 happy. In the evening attended Trinity Chapel, and heard 

 *The Heavens are telling the Glory of God,' in magnificent 

 style ; the last chorus seemed to shake the very walls of the 

 College. After chapel a large party in Sedgwick's rooms. 

 So much for my Annals." 



He started, towards the end of June, on his expedition to 

 Glen Roy, of which he writes to Fox : " I have not been very 

 v/ell of late, which has suddenly determined me to leave Lon- 

 don earlier than I had anticipated. I go by the steam-packet 

 to Edinburgh, — take a solitary walk on Salisbury Craigs, and 

 call up old thoughts of former times, then go on to Glasgow 

 and the great valley of Inverness, near which I intend stop- 

 ping a week to geologise the parallel roads of Glen Roy, thence 

 to Shrewsbury, Maer for one day, and London for smoke, ill- 

 health and hard work." 



He spent ''eight good days" over the Parallel Roads. 

 His Essay on this subject was written out during the same 

 summer, and published by the Royal Society. f He wrote in 

 his Pocket Book : "September 6 [1838]. Finished the paper 



* Samuel Lee, of Queens', was Professor of Arabic from 1819 to 1831, 

 and Regius Professor of Hebrew from 1831 to 1848. 

 f ' Phil. Trans.' 1839, pp. 39-82. 



