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"Thus motionless, and moanless drew 

 His parting breath stout Roderick Dhu!" 



Lady of the Lake. 



I have been supplied with two small sheets of explanation, yet still there are 

 some initials and signs, and in one or two places the word "bolt" of which I cannot 

 make out the signification. 



N.B. — The figures on Great How Crags 2625 should be 2525. I hope you will 

 excuse the liberties I have taken with the work which had afforded me a great 

 deal of pleasure. Now ia my eighty-ninth year I am not able to climb the hiUs, so 

 I must content myself with them represented on paper in a way I had not expected. 

 If you find anything deserving a reply, I should be glad to receive it from you. 



Yours, 



The following letter from Mr. Farey, the well known old mining 

 engineer, is of considerable importance. 



I'roin Mr. J. Farey. 



37, Rowland Street, Fitzroy Sq., 

 March 14th, 1819. 



Dear Sir, — 



The bearer, Mr. Wilson Lowry,* is my particular friend ; he is a native 

 of your country, but left it very young, and has long resided in Great Titchfield 

 Street (No. 57), very near here ; — he is not less known, as the unrivalled Engraver 

 of perspective and scientific subjects, than as a most able Mineralogist, Crystallo- 

 grapher, &c., &c., and having the most extensive scientific acquaintance of perhaps 

 any man in England, except 'Sir Joseph Banks ; — if during the short time he may 

 be able to stay at or near Keswick, you can show him attention, it would 

 greatly oblige me, and the same may eventually prove beneficial to yourself, Mr. L. 

 having often proved himself a liberal recommender of ingenious, practical, un- 

 assuming men like you. 



I hope that you received my long letter of the 26th ult. , and that you will be 

 able to shew and explain to my friend Mr. L. on your map, all the Lines of Strata 

 Ridges (troughs) and Strata Partings which I have described therein ; with all 

 such corrections or verifications of them, new ones, etc., as you may have been 

 able to make. Wherever you actically ohsei~ve the direction of the Dip, draw a short 

 dart on the place on your map ; and if you want to express the different degrees of 

 Dip, the most ready and useful mode is, that of the colliers, who always mention 

 the proportion of CB (considered as 1 or unity) to AC ; and they say, a coal (as AB) 



* Father of Mr. Lowry, the present talented engraver of the Hor. Sects, of the 

 Geological Survey. 



