ADDRESS. XXXV 



made or directed : and some curious traits in the laws of tidal phgenomena 

 here, which were noticed as early as the time of Newton, have, I trust, been 

 followed out to a tolerably exact determination. An anemometer, which I 

 had devised, has been erected here, with most valuable improvements, by 

 Mr. Snow Harris, and has been for some time in operation. And when I 

 consider, as we may do, this meeting as a meeting peculiarly intended to bring 

 the Association in contact with the West of England, I find that Cornwall 

 returns to my thoughts, with all the scientific zeal and intelligence, which 

 from my own personal intercourse I know to exist among the miners of that 

 county. Perhaps I have had very unusual opportunities of becoming ac- 

 quainted with their merits, for in two different years (1826 and 1828), in the 

 prosecution of certain subterraneous experiments, undertaken in conjunction 

 with the present Astronomer Royal and other persons, I lived four months 

 the life of a labouring miner, and learnt how admirable for skill and conduct 

 is the character of all cleisses of the mining population in that region. If any 

 of my Cornish friends are within hearing, I gladly bid them God speed, and 

 claim once more their welcome to the West. And that I may no longer 

 detain you, to all of you, gentlemen of the British Association, I bid God 

 speed ; and from all of you, gentlemen of Plymouth and its neighbourhood, 

 I seem to hear, Welcome to Plymouth ! 



