20 ABERDEEN UNIVERSITY LIFE [ch. ii. 
Luc’s Geology being all that he had brought with 
him. 
During his residence at Northtown on this 
occasion he appears to have been recognised and 
trusted as a doctor, and was frequently called on 
for medical aid and advice which he always willingly 
gave, although often at considerable inconvenience 
to himself. He also showed no little aptitude for 
matters of business, and on one occasion he took in 
hand and carried through successfully an important 
business affair in connection with the renewal of 
his uncle’s lease of the farm of North town, the 
uncle himself having failed in bringing it to a 
conclusion. Indeed he was always ready, in so far 
as within liis power, to afford kindly help to any 
one in need of it. He was a great favourite with 
all his relations and friends in Harris, and he 
acknowledges in his journal that he had gained 
much in health, both of body and mind, during 
that prolonged stay in the West. 
When preparing to leave Harris for the con¬ 
tinuation of the tour he had projected before 
leaving Aberdeen, he made a careful “survey” 
of his physical and mental condition, and of 
the vaiious educational and other acquirements 
of which he was then possessed. This “ survey ” 
he sets forth in some very interesting passages 
towards the end of his journal. In one of these 
passages, dated 27th April 1818, after noting 
various habits which he had resolved to break off, 
he continues:— 
