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df the huil. ling of thin grand instrument, which it 

 would be a mistake to overlook. 

 Caroline Henchel had difficulties with aervanU from 

 irliest days of housekeeping. No one pleased 



tjeeause, having been intended for a household 

 i-t herself by her toother and her brother Jacob, 

 she was too exacting when it came to her turn to lord 

 r other MI the ignorance and disregn 



t he class servants were drawn from, we cannot 

 tell But her account of the workmen whom her 

 brother employed on the great telescope painU the 

 those days in colours more black, and 

 more incredible, than we are warranted in rect-hin- 

 Tuple. For some weeks in the summer of 1786 

 she was 1 arge at Slough, while her brother was 



absent in Hanover on a sci mission from the 



i^'nl in fact with conveying to the University 

 tgen a 10- feet reflector, constructed by Her- 

 1 presented by the King for the Observatory, 

 li had already taken high rank in Europe. There 

 were no less than thirty or forty of my brother's work- 

 people," she writes, "at work for upwards of three 

 lis together, some employed in felling and rooting 

 rees, some digging and preparing the ground for 

 the bricklayers who were laying the foundation for the 

 telescope, and the carpenter in Slough, with all his 

 men. The smith, meanwhile, was converting a wash- 

 boose into a forge, and manufacturing complete sets 

 Is for the work he was to enter on. ... In short, 

 the place was a complete workshop for waking optical 

 instruments, and it was a pleasure to go into it to see 

 how attei he men listened to and executed 



master's orders." 



