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pieces of the organ on which Herschel played, and which 

 may again be erected as a memorial of the great astronomer 

 in the city that was the birthplace of his fame. 



Evidently Herschel's views of the heavens left an abiding 

 impression on Campbell's mind. 1 Eighteen years after his 

 first meeting with Herschel, and nine after the astronomer's 

 death, he became acquainted with Pond, then Astronomer- 

 Royal, whose " most interesting and instructive " conversation 

 he likens to "a gift from Providence." He then proceeds to 

 say : " I had lately been dabbling in the astronomical relics of 

 the Greek Alexandrian school, and had the idea of embodying 

 my notes on ancient geography into a regular history, when 

 this Life of Mrs. Siddons suspended my intention. But I 

 have of late been so interested in the subject, that I 

 revised my mathematics, the better to understand the 

 histories of ancient science given by Ideler and Delambre. 

 Mr. Pond's conversation has been, therefore, eagerly sought 

 by me, and he is most affably communicative. 



"We have just been gazing on Jupiter and his moons, 

 through a glass that makes Jove appear as large as the 

 sun's disk, and his satellites like ordinary stars ! The moon 

 appears through it as large as a church. His opinion of her 

 ladyship is that she is not inhabited there being no atmo- 

 sphere and the whole region, probably, only ice and snow. 

 Strange enough that a body, which creates such lively 

 crotchets in so many human brains, should itself be cold and 

 lifeless." 



Campbell's poetry, whether in prose or verse, would 

 probably have been more worth reading than Dr. Burney's 

 astronomical poem, but neither of them ever saw the light of 

 day. One thing Campbell relates. Mrs. Pond, he says, 

 " when I first saw her, as she was walking shortly after 

 their marriage was a young, fair, and graceful woman, arm 

 in arm with her very plain and elderly husband. There was 

 i See above, pp. 207-9. 2 Beattie, Life of Campbell, iii. 94. 



