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MEMOIR OÌ1 SIR HENRY YULE 1852.
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sentiment." At Durham they dined with a dignitary of the
Church, and Yule was roasted by being placed with his back to
an enormous fire. " Coals are cheap at Durham," he notes
feelingly, adding, " The party we found as heavy as any Edin-
burgh one. Smith, indeed, evidently has had little experience
of really stupid Edinburgh parties, for he had never met with
anything approaching to this before." (Happy Smith !) But
thanks to the kindness and hospitality of the astronomer, Mr.
Chevalier, and his gifted daughter, they had a delightful visit to
beautiful Durham, and came away full of admiration for the
(then newly established) University, and its grand locale. They
went on to stay with an uncle by marriage of Yule's, in York-
shire. At dinner he was asked by his host to explain Foucault's
pendulum experiment. " I endeavoured to explain it somewhat,
I hope, to the satisfaction of his doubts, but not at all to that of
Mr G. M., who most resolutely declined to take in any elucida-
tion, coming at last to the conclusion that he entirely differed
with me as to what North meant, and that it was useless to
argue until we could agree about that ! " They went next to
Leeds, to visit Kirkstall Abbey, " a medieval fossil, curiously
embedded among the squalid brickwork and chimney stalks of
a manufacturing suburb. Having established ourselves at the
hotel, we went to deliver a letter to Mr. Hope, the official
assignee, a very handsome, aristocratic-looking gentleman, who
seemed as much out of place at Leeds as the Abbey." At
Leeds they visited the flax mills of Messrs. Marshall, " a firm
noted for the conscientious care they take of their workpeople
. . . We mounted on the roof of the building, which is covered
with grass, and formerly was actually grazed by a few sheep,
until the repeated inconvenience of their tumbling through the
glass domes put a stop to this." They next visited some tile
and brickworks on land belonging to a friend. " The owner of
the tile works, a well-to-do burgher, and the apparent model of
a West Riding Radical, received us in rather a dubious way :
`There are a many people has come and brought introductions,
and looked at all my works, and then gone and set up for them-
selves close by. Now des you mean to say that you be really
come all the way from Bengul ?' ` Yes, indeed we have, and we
are going all the way back again, though we didn't exactly come
from there to look at your brickworks.' ` Then you're not in
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