334 Caroline Lucretia Herschel. [1844. 



S. Lat., and discovered a new continent full of volcanoes and 

 icy mountains, and the true position of the south magnetic 

 pole. He anchored his ship upon the spot where the 

 Americans say they found land, and found no bottom at 

 six hundred fathoms ! 



MISS HERSCHEL TO SIR J. F. W. HERSCHEL. 



June 4, 1844. 



MY DEAREST NEPHEW, 



.... For these last three months I have not been 

 able to add a single line to my Memoir, but what you will 

 find among my papers and memorandums ; perhaps 3 r our 

 daughter Isabella may, for her amusement some time or 

 other, correct and write in the clear, my scribblings, for I 

 find that in attempting to correct one blunder I am making 

 two others in the same line. But I wish you might see, 

 by what I say of myself, what trouble and invention it must 

 have cost your father to enable me to assist in determining 

 the places of all these objects, and I see with pleasure that 



your observations agree so nearly. 



***** 



I was going to send, for the amusement of my dear niece, 

 some description of what is going on here in Hanover, but 

 I find it would be too much for my time and patience at 

 present, and will only say that I believe they are all out of 

 their senses. 



There is an Eiseribalin * from Hanover to Braunschweig 

 just now completed, which has turned them all wild. 

 Some hundreds of high officers all (but the King) set off at 

 eight o'clock to breakfast with the Braunschweigers, and 

 returned with the same at three to dinner (eight hundred in 

 number) in the orangery at Herrnhausen, from whence the 

 Braunschweigers returned and were at home, I believe,. 



again at eight. 



Railway. 



