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was given his choice to proceed leisurely with the 

 Duke, or to ride with the ladies and be galloped 

 over. His reply was, that of all things he liktd being 

 galloped over, and he made his choice accordingly. He 

 compares the two daughters of the Duke to Venus and 

 Minerva, both being goddesses. He visited the Cum- 

 berland lakes. But here it may be said, once for all, 

 that Young was somewhat stunted in his taste for 

 natural scenery. He was a man of the town, fond of 

 social intercourse, and of intellectual collision. He 

 could not understand the possibility of any man 

 choosing to live in the country if the chance of living 

 in London was open to him. At Liverpool he dined 

 with Eoscoe, proceeding afterwards to Coalbrookdale 

 and its ironworks. As previously at Carron, he was 

 greatly impressed by the glare of the furnaces. Mr. 

 W. Reynolds, who appeared to interest himself in 

 physical experiments on a large scale, told him that he 

 had the intention of making a flute 150 feet long and 

 2^ feet in diameter, to be blown by a steam-engine 

 and played upon by barrels. From Young's letters 

 it is evident that he then saw the value and necessity 

 of what we now call technical education. 



In October 1795, he became a student in the 

 University of Gottingen. He gives an account of his 

 diurnal occupations, embracing attendance at lectures 

 on history, on materia medica, on acute diseases, and 

 on natural history. He is careful to note that he had 

 also lessons twice a week from Blessmen, the academical 

 dancing-master, and the same number of lessons on the 

 clavichord from Forkel. Young's pursuit of ' personal 

 accomplishments ' is considered by his biographer to 

 have been excessive. At Gottingen he attended, on 

 Bundays, tea dances or supper dances. The mother! 



