394 THE EOYAL INSTITUTION. [CHAP. VI. 



He continued his notes thus : 



' September 2. I took my exercise well with less 

 fatigue, and certainly feel better. Offered up my 

 thanksgiving to the 0. 0. 0. with tears of gratitude 

 and feelings of intense adoration. 



6 September 27, ST. GOAR. A very beautiful and 

 glorious evening. I thought I was going to be quite 

 well, as the weakness of the left wrist, which put an end 

 to my shooting at Spiers, is quite gone ; but I found 

 my stiff leg as bad as ever. Yet I can hardly be 

 lower or live lower. Dubito fortissime restaurationem 

 meam. 



' As I have so often alluded to the possibility of my 

 dying suddenly, I think it right to mention that I am 

 too intense a believer in the Supreme Intelligence, and 

 have too strong a faith in the optimism of the system 

 of the universe, ever to accelerate my dissolution. The 

 laurel-water and laudanum .and opium that are in my 

 dressing-case are medicines. I have been and am 

 taking a care of my health which I fear it is not worth, 

 but which, hoping it may please Providence to preserve 

 me for wise purposes, I think my duty. Gr. 0. 0. 0.' 



He arrived in London on October 6. Not finding his 

 health improve, on March 29, 1828, he left England 

 again. Before he went he sent a paper on Volcanoes to 

 the Eoyal Society. 



In his ' Consolations in Travel' he says, C I was desirous 

 of again passing some time in Southern Austria and 

 Italy, in the hope of re-establishing a broken constitu- 

 tion, and though this hope was a feeble one, yet at least 

 I expected to spend a few of the last days of life more 



