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From Professor Sedgwick. 



Trinity College, Cambridge, 



February 9tli, 1827. 



Dear Sir, — 



Since I had the pleasure of seeing you at Keswick last September, I have 

 made very little progress with my geological papers. A public examination, and 

 a course of Lectures to the University, took up the greatest part of my time in the 

 October Term ; and as soon as it was finished I started for Paris, at which place I 

 remained five weeks ; employed among other things in studying the public collec- 

 tions of that capital. You would have been at once delighted and astonished at 

 the magnificent fossils and other specimens of natural history in the. Parisian 

 museums. In about a fortnight I hope to finish the work which I have at present 

 on hand ; and I shall then commence with arranging my Cumberland collection. 

 If you have finished the map of the Skiddaw region, have the goodness to send it 

 up along with my own geological map, by some safe conveyance. The mail is, I 

 think, on the whole, the safest — more safe than a private hand. I don't regard 

 any expense of carriage, it would therefore perhaps be best to make it into a 

 moderate sized parcel. Pray send at the same time your own account, and I will 

 transmit the money by the very first opportunity. Cowper is here with a large 

 assortment of minerals, but I have not yet seen him. How is C. Wright getting 

 on? Present my kindest remembrances to Mr. Southey, and believe me with 

 great regard, 



Very truly yours, 



A. SEDGWICK. 



P.S. — Your own reputation is quite safe in my hands. I will carefully 

 describe in my paper all those facts and details, which I derive from yourself and 

 from your prior publications. And I shall adopt with proper acknowledgment, 

 your three great divisions of the Slate formation. 



From Professor Sedgwick. . 



Deal, October 5th, 1827. 

 Dear Sir, — 



I received your map and letter some time last Spring, and hoped to have 

 found an opportunity of sending to you ; but I started for Scotland before our men 

 left College, and have since that time been scrambling among the Highlands of 

 Scotland and the Hebrides. Dr. Ainger is commissioned to pay you five pounds ; 

 not as a remuneration, but as an acknowledgment for what you have done for me 

 in perfecting the map of the Skiddaw region. I am quite sure the sum is not 

 adequate, but the employment was one which I believe you do not dislike ; and 

 perhaps in some future year I may again look for your assistance in a friendly way. 

 I hope in course of next year to complete a description of a portion of the Cumber- 

 land mountains. I shall also endeavour to draw up an account of what I have seen 

 in Scotland. 



