From Thomas Higginson   Thursday, June 11th 1841.

Millstreet,1 Thursday | June 11th 1841.

My dear Tyndall

On Friday I set out from Nohoval2 to this when arrived in Cork the first to be done was to look for Miss Duble but that was easier said than done when after walking my feet off looking for Orrory Hill3 I was returning from the search when I met a peeler4 asked if he knew and where she lived he asked me was it Mr Duble the butcher.5 He said if I returned with him he would show me where Orrory Hill was and where he lived, but being rather tired I declined. So ended the search On Saturday I set out for Macroom 24 miles along the river Lee, the scenery of which is splendid. in Macroom there stands a fine old abbey.6 I was so tired when I arrived that I could not go to see it. On Sunday I marched to Millstreet what a different scenery to the last days march. Instead of the Lee winding its way through glens wooded to the water’s edge, I now came in view of a country covered with mountains like the waves of the troubled ocean one rising higher than another but our work is very level. I suppose you’re delighted at going to Kinsale to be under Lieut. Fenwick as Whittingham is going away.7 I have no more to say at present give my love to Jim, Tid, Cuddy and the blackguards

Yours ever | T.C.H.8

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1

Millstreet: a market town 25 miles north-west of Cork.

2

Nohoval: 5 miles east of Kinsale, close to the spectacular Nohoval Cove.

3

Orrory Hill: Orrery Hill is to the north of Cork.

4

a peeler: a member of the Irish constabulary (OED).

5

Mr Duble the butcher: possibly William W. Deeble, butcher, in the Corporation Market, Cork.

6

in Macroom there stands a fine old abbey: Macroom is a market town in County Cork and is situated on a tributary of the River Lee. As there is no abbey in Macroom, Higginson may have been referring to St Colman’s church.

7

Whittingham is going away: Whittingham was briefly stationed in Kinsale before leaving the Survey on 11 July 1841 after 2 years and 168 days’ service.

8

T.C.H.: Thomas Charles Higginson.

Please cite as “Tyndall0065,” in Ɛpsilon: The John Tyndall Collection accessed on 28 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/tyndall/letters/Tyndall0065