28 Caroline Lucretia Herschel. [1772. 



" The next day the mistress of the inn lent me a hat of 

 her daughter's mine was blown into one of the canals of 

 Holland, for we had stonns by land as well as at sea and 

 we went to see St. Paul's, the Bank, &c., &c. Mem : only the 

 outside, except of St. Paul's and the Bank, and we were never 

 off our legs, except at meals in our inn. Towards even- 

 ing we went to the West of the town, where, after having 

 called on Despatch Secretary Wiese and his lady (Mr. 

 Wiese conducted our correspondence with Hanover) we 

 went to the inn, from whence we at ten o'clock in the even- 

 ing started by the night coach for Bath on the 28th of 

 August After taking some tea I went imme- 

 diately to bed, and I did not awake till the next day in the 

 afternoon, when I found my brother had but just left his 

 room. I for my part was, from the privation of sleep 

 for eleven or twelve days (not having above twice been in 

 what they called a bed) almost annihilated." 



END OF EECOLLECTIONS, VOL. I. 



The only allusion to this journey in Sir W. 

 Herschel's Journal is the brief entry: "August 16, 

 1772. Set off on my return to England in company 

 with my sister." 



