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probably never quite recovered from the effects of that 

 disastrous break-down in 1860. Had he been able to 

 free himself from the burden of his lectureship at 

 the School of Mines, he might perhaps have been 

 restored to complete health, and have escaped from that 

 mental weariness which his friends and colleagues used 

 sorrowfully to watch as it increased upon him during 

 each succeeding session of the school. Even the 

 advancement to be Director-General did not throw off 

 this incubus. The income of the appointment was 

 reduced by the amount of his salary as professor, and 

 he was compelled to go on lecturing for five years longer, 

 until the Treasury at length agreed to restore the 

 emoluments of the office to what they had formerly 

 been, and to permit him to resign his lectureship. 



In the early autumn the new Director -General 

 made an official tour in Ireland, in order to become 

 personally acquainted with the various officers in that 

 part of the United Kingdom, and also to see some of 

 the more salient features of Irish geology, of which as 

 yet he had not been able to obtain any knowledge by 

 actual examination in the field. The following letters 

 supply us with some pictures of the tour : 



LARNE, 2^th September 1872. 



MY DEAR MRS. COOKMAN I am at Larne, in 

 Antrim, some twenty miles or so north of Belfast, and 

 have with me my good friend John F. Campbell, ycleped 

 of Islay. 1 And this is how it happened. Being in 

 London against my will, in re a fight in the Irish 

 branch of the Survey, I heard that Campbell was also 



1 John F. Campbell, born 1821, died 1885, author of Tales of the West 

 Highlands, was also fond of geological observation. He had travelled far and 

 wide, and was the author of the picturesque and entertaining work Frost and 

 Fire, besides other volumes of travel. 



