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money I ever in all my lifetime thought myself to be at 

 liberty to spend to my own liking. A great uneasiness 

 was by this means removed from my mind, for though I had 

 generally (and especially during the last busy six years) been 

 almost the keeper of my brother's purse, with a charge 

 to provide for my personal wants, only annexing in my 

 accounts the memorandum for Car. to the sums so laid 

 out when cast up, they hardly amounted to seven or 

 eight pounds per year since the time we had left Bath. 

 Nothing but bankruptcy had all the while been running 

 through my silly head, when looking at the sums of my weekly 

 accounts and knowing they could be but trifling in compari- 

 son with what had been and had yet to be paid in town, for 

 my brother had not been fortunate enough to meet with a 

 reasonable man for a caster who could also furnish the 

 crane, &c., and his bills came in greatly overcharged. But 

 more of this in another place. I will only add that from 

 this time the utmost activity prevailed to forward the com- 

 pletion of the forty-foot. An additional optical workman 

 was engaged, and preparation made for" casting the second 

 mirror. Journeys to town were made for moulding, and at 

 the end of January a fine cast mirror arrived safely at 

 Slough. Several seven-foot telescopes were finished and 

 sent off. 



The fine nights were not neglected, though observations 

 were often interrupted by visitors. Messrs. Cassini, Mechain, 

 Le Genre, and Carochet spent November 26th and 27th with 

 my brother, and saw many objects in the twenty-foot and 

 other instruments. 



The catalogue of the second thousand new nebulaB 

 wanted but a few numbers in March to being complete. 

 The observations on the Georgian satellites furnished a 

 paper which was delivered to the Royal Society in May. 

 The 8th of that month being fixed on for my brother's 



