CHAP. IV.] ADOLESCENCE 1844 TO 1847. 71 



Introduction to the Knowledge of the Scriptures, and Prideaux's 

 Connection of the Old and New Testaments, and Townshend's 

 Harmony, which are of great use. 1 



July 1845. ^t. 14. 



I have got the llth prize for Scholarship, the 1st for 

 English, the prize for English verses, and the Mathematical 

 Medal. I tried for Scripture Knowledge, and Hamilton in 

 the 7th has got it. We tried for the Medal 2 on Thursday. 

 I had done them 3 all, and got home at ^ past 2 ; but 

 Campbell stayed till 4. I was rather tired with writing 

 exercises from 9 till ^ past 2. 4 



Campbell and I went " once more unto the b(r)each " to- 

 day at Portobello. I can swim a little now. Campbell 

 has got 6 prizes. He got a letter written too soon con- 

 gratulating him upon my medal ; but there is no rivalry 

 betwixt us, as B Carmichael says. 



His aunt, Miss Cay, to whom these letters are 

 addressed, had begun again to take more charge of 

 him than in the preceding years. Mrs. Wedderburn's 

 health was very uncertain. Cousin Jemima was 

 grown-up and immersed in her own pursuits, -and the 

 companionship of his cousin, George Wedderburn, a 

 young man about Edinburgh, and a humourist of a 

 different order, was not in every way the most suit- 



1 Viz. for a competition in Scripture Knowledge, which was open 

 to the 5th, 6th, and 7th classes. The prize was gained that ya ! 

 one of the 7th. 



2 " Mathematical Prize " is added between the lines by Mr. Clerk 

 Maxwell, who writes a P.S. to the letter. 



3 " The trial exercises," ditto, ditto. 



4 In these competitions we seem to have been allowed to stay till 

 we had done all we knew. Witness the following extract from the 

 Diary : " 1847, July, Mon. 19. James at Academy trial for Prize for 

 Scripture Knowledge. Worked from 9 to 5. Lewis Campbell and 

 W. Tait worked till 6." 



