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WILLIAM SOORESBY, THE YOUNGER. 
words, inconceivably painful. He had, he says, such a degTading 
sense of his own inferiority, that he could not summon vanity enough 
to imagine liimself the object of any attention. This passed away 
in time to a certain extent, but never completely. Professor Jameson 
caused several parts of Scoresby's manuscripts to be laid before the 
Wernerian, now the Royal Physical Society, of which he was president. 
The articles mainly dealt with meteorology, the description and 
figuring of snow crystals, and remarks on the whale, with drawings of 
the animal : and he was elected a member of this Society. On the 
whole, Edinburgh seems to have delighted him. He says himself 
that on entering the northern capital he had not a single literary, 
acquaintance in the place ; he quitted it enriched by the friendship 
of some of the most eminent men of science in the Scottish metropolis. 
In 1810 he made the acquaintance of Dr. Stuart, of Luss, whose 
house, on the shore of Loch Lomond, ajipears to have been a place to 
which people of scientific or literary culture naturally made their 
way. Scoresby's taste for science was now thoroughly developed. He 
was associated with Sir Thomas McDougall Brisbane, while on this 
Northern excursion, in taking astronomical observations in the Lsleof 
Bute, Sir Thomas having an excellent observatory at Mount Stuart, 
in that island. Returning to London, he records that he visited Sir 
Joseph Banks weekly, and particularly notes that he was constantly 
present at Sir Joseph's conversaziones on the sabbath evenings. 
On the oth October, 1810, his 21st birthday, Mr, Scoresby was 
appointed to the command of the Resolution," his father retiring in 
his favour. His first voyage was a success, and he began to look 
forward to marriage. He married his first love, ^lary Eliza Lockwood, 
in 1811. His autobiography at this time reads somewhat curiously. 
He tells us that while externally his conduct was moral and exemplar)^ 
he was an utter stranger to the spirit of piety. Persons of eminent 
sanctity assured him that to be in a state of safety for eternity some 
renovation of heart and "alterative" in unholy desire must be necessary. 
He tried to discover the way of salvation, but, while wishing to be 
religious, he was not willing to give up worldly pleasures. His life 
was a constant struggle between the convictions of conscience and 
the power of sin. He confesses that he rather looked to his union 
