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CHAPTER VII. 



COLLEGE APPOINTMENT. 



When Mr. Harvey returned in 1840, to resume his official 

 duties at Cape Town, after his leave of absence and continental 

 tours, though apparently restored to his accustomed health, his 

 susceptibility to the influence of the African climate had not 

 been overcome, and towards the close of the year 1841 he had 

 a renewal of his former illness, which obliged him finally 

 to abandon all idea of any further residence in a climate 

 for which he was evidently so unfitted. In the spring of 1842 

 he once more arrived in London, where, after submitting for 

 some weeks to medical treatment and care, he felt well enough 

 to enjoy the society of a few of his friends, and also to take 

 a short excursion in the Isle of Wight, previous to leaving 

 for Ireland. 



The reader will no doubt readily enter into the feelings 

 arising from blighted prospects, and the frustration of long- 

 cherished hopes, under which the following letters were written. 



To a Cousin. 



London, April 17, 1842. 

 " Pity the sorrows of a poor old man !" that is weary of the 

 routine life which he is forced to lead here. I have been 

 performing a sort of quarantine for the last two months, but 

 have no just reason at their conclusion for any other feeling 

 than one of gratitude to our Heavenly Father for having restored 

 the tottering frame-work of my nerves. 



