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206 SCOTTISH INDUSTRIAL HISTORY
Bathgate Shale oil Works and again to spend _£i6oo on a Work not
required. Which stands as an unfinished Monument of imposition
on a confining Nature, etc. My advice to you is to confess your
discovery yesterday to D. Munro who will sirch in to the affair
and dismiss the whole pack, Advertise for a Chemist to take charge
in place of those who never should have been in charge of what
was so Important To Sir James Mathison Bt., yourself and the
whole Estate, and not less to me who gave up promising Situations
at my Trade for the L.C. Works at which I got engrafted by the
Advice of Sir James Mathison and his Factor after Dr B. H. Paul
left the Works.
Yours etc D. Morison
Copy rendered on Date
P.S. You asking my advice last night will I hope excuse my free¬
dom.]
When first able to Drive to the Refinery, The Humbling of the
St Edmund Monks to Abbot Samson was acted over again.
[Carlyle Past and Present] We decide on humbling ourselves before
the Abbot, by word and gesture in order to Medicate his Mind.
He, replying with much humelety. Yet alleging his own justice
turning the blame on us. When he saw us conquered, became him¬
self Conquered - swore that he never was greaved so much for any¬
thing, First for himself and Cheafley for the scandal which had
gone abroad - Embraced all of us - he wept. We wept. What a
picture. Behave better ye remiss Monks, and thank Heaven for such
an Abbot - or Know that ye must and shall obay.
It might be reasonably expected That after the foregoing des-
covery a Change would be made at the Rifenery, But a repitition of
the Humbling of the St Edmund Monks, Flattery and Blarney, got
them into favour again.
Soon after the deque began to brake up. First some of James
Macfadens relations removed south. Next year James and Famley
left for America Where they Bought Farms, and no dought
Blissing their Stars for having met with such a Confiding Gentle¬
man as Henry Gaunter Esqre Manager of the L.C. Works refinery.
His Brother who with his Famley came to Garabost as Brick,
Tile and Flower Pot Maker, succeeded James as Chemist and Oil