“As early as Feb. 23rd I had been in correspondence with T. Jones, the instrument-maker, about pendulums for a repetition of the Dolcoath Experiments.  Invitations had been received, and everything was arranged with Whewell.  Sheepshanks, my brother, and Mr Jackson of Ipswich (Caius Coll.) were to go, and we were subsequently joined by Sedgwick, and Lodge (Magdalene Coll.).  On July 3rd Sheepshanks and I started by Salisbury, taking Sherborne on our way to look at the church, which had alarmed the people by signs of a crack, and arrived at Camborne on July 8th.  On the 14th we set up the pendulums, and at once commenced observations, our plan being, to have no intermission in the pendulum observations, so that as soon as the arc became too small a fresh series was started.  On July 29th we raised the instruments, and Sheepshanks, who managed much of the upper operations, both astronomical and of pendulums, mounted the pendulums together in his observatory.  We went on with our calculations, and on August 8th, on returning from a visit to John Williams at Barncoose, we heard that there was a ‘run’ in Dolcoath, that is a sinking of the whole mass of rock where it had been set free by the mine excavations:  probably only a few inches, but enough to break the rock much and to stop the pumps.  On Aug. 10th the calculations of our observations shewed that there was something wrong, and on the 13th I perceived an anomaly in the form of the knife edge of one pendulum, and of its agate planes, and suggested cautions for repeating the observations.  We determined at once to repeat them:  and as the water was rising in the mine there was no time to be lost.  We again sent the instruments down, and made observations on the 16th, 17th and 18th.  On the 19th I sent the instruments up, for the water was near our station, and Sedgwick, Whewell, and I went on a geological expedition to the Lizard.  On our return we met Sheepshanks and the others, and found the results of the last observations unsatisfactory.  The results of comparing the pendulums were discordant, and the knife edge of the faulty pendulum had very sensibly altered.  We now gave up observations, with the feeling that our time had been totally lost, mainly through the fault of the maker of the pendulum (T.  Jones).  On the 28th we made an expedition to Penzance and other places, and arrived at Cambridge on the 17th of September.

“In the course of the work at Dolcoath we made various expeditions as opportunity offered.  Thus we walked to Carn Brea and witnessed the wrestling, the common game of the country.  On another occasion Sedgwick, Whewell, and I had a capital geological expedition to Trewavas Head to examine granite veins.  We visited at Pendarves and Trevince, and made the expedition to the Lizard already referred to, and saw many of the sights in the neighbourhood.  After visiting Penzance on the conclusion of our work we saw Cape Cornwall (where Whewell overturned me in a gig), and