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i.J MEMOIR OF COLONEL PATRICK STEWART. 17
merits and objects of general or scientific interest in the
metropolis, and a levee and presentation at St. James's
Palace.
In 1852, there is recorded a civil engineering excur
sion from Chatham to some of the principal towns and
notable places in England ; the little expense and great
advantage attending which method of combining amuse
ment and instruction should be suggestive of frequent
repetition. The party consisted of ten cadets and a
superintending officer. From the Great Western terminus
in London they went by express to Swindon, where
they visited the large engine manufactory and iron
works. From Swindon they went to Bristol and Clifton,
down the Avon, across the Severn, and up the Wye to
Chepstow; where, landing with his comrades imme
diately below the new bridge, young Stewart had the
great good fortune to be accompanied over the works
by Brunei himself. From Chepstow they proceeded to
^ Cardiff and its docks ; thence to Merthyr Tydvil and its
ironworks ; thence to Liverpool, Birkenhead, Manchester,
Birmingham, and London again. At the close of a
pleasant and profitable fortnight they were back at
Chatham.
This agreeable and practical lesson may be said to
have terminated the preliminary or English course of
engineering study. On the 30th June of the same year
1 atrick Stewart embarked at Gravesend for Calcutta.
He had taken his passage, vid the Cape, in the Maid-
alone, a sailing vessel. Some warm-hearted young com
panions made marked demonstration of their friendship
by escorting him to the very side of the ship as she was
m the act of weighing anchor.
A voyage to India round the Cape, however tedious
c