96 SIR WM. AND CAROLINE HEBSCHEL. 



And this great ambition nerved him for action, 

 continued and laborious, as long as he lived. He 

 was never satisfied ; always achieving. Little can 

 be expected from those who are easily satisfied. 



George III. wisely appointed Herschel Royal 

 Astronomer, though with the too small salary of 

 two hundred pounds yearly. He came back to 

 Bath only to perform the last musical duty on 

 Whit Sunday, 1782, the anthem for the day being 

 his own composition, and to say good-by to his 

 pupils. 



He moved to Datchet in 1782, and set up his 

 twenty-foot telescope. In 1783 he had made three 

 reviews of the heavens. In 1784 he made a fourth 

 review with his twenty-foot telescope. Caroline 

 says : " My brother began -his sweeps when the 

 instrument was yet in a very unfinished state, and 

 my feelings were not very comfortable when every 

 moment I was alarmed by a crash or a fall, know- 

 ing him to be elevated fifteen feet or more on a 

 temporary crossbeam, instead of a safe gallery. 

 The ladders had not even their braces at the bot- 

 tom ; and one night, in a very high wind, he had 

 hardly touched the ground before the whole appa- 

 ratus came down. ... I could give a pretty long 

 list of accidents which were near proving fatal to 

 my brother as well as myself." 



A gentleman who visited him at Datchet wrote : 

 " The thermometer in the garden stood at 13 Fahr- 

 enheit ; but in spite of this, Herschel observes the 

 whole night through, except that he stops every 



