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queuces, which assuredly I did not ; for I sent down the letters never dreaming 

 about any injury they might do to the sale of any other work, and was very glad 

 when they were once off my hands. I trust you will see by this explanation how 

 entirely free I have been from any unkind feeling towards yourself. Do you wish 

 to publish a geological majD of j'our country, on tlie scale of your Lake Map ? If 

 so, I would most willingly help you to the best of my power ; and you might use 

 my name in any way you thought fit. I think such a map, with a short explanatory 

 sheet, might have a sale. Have you a copy of the last edition of my letters (pub- 

 lished 1846) with the long list of fossils ? If not, I mil tell Hudson to forward you 

 one with my compliments. I think it is now high time to set you at liberty. I 

 shall be glad of any geological news. Is Charles Wright flourishing and making 

 discoveries ? Remember me to him and any one else who remembers me. 



Very truly yours, 



A. SEDGWICK. 



From Mr. Otlcy to Professor Sedgwick. 



Keswick, Februarj' 24th, 1847. 



Rev. Sir, — 



I was very glad to see your writing after so long absence ; at the same 

 time I feel for the infirmities of which you have to complain. I should have had 

 great pleasure in executing what you request, if I had felt able to do it ; but if I 

 should undertake what I fou^jd myself incapable of completing, it would hurt my 

 feelings too much for me to bear. I am as well as a person can expect to be at the 

 age of eighty-one ; but I have left off rambling the mountains for the last ten years. 

 Tlie last time I was on Helvellyn was with Dr. Dalton in 1836, and my last time 

 on Skiddaw, the same year. I was so kindly noticed both by Dr. Dalton and 

 yourself, that to see each of you once a year was one of my principal and greatest 

 enjoj^ments. If I had been as I was twenty years since, when I made jou the map 

 of Skiddaw, I think I could not have managed what you require, without having 

 time to walk along each line of section, or at least within sight of it. I have seen 

 so little of the mountains for the last ten years, except those in my view every day, 

 that my recollection of their features is not so perfect as it once was ; and some of 

 your sections will pass through parts with which I have never been much acquainted ; 

 besides, I am but a poor draughtsman. Mr. Foster was not satisfied with what I 

 had drawn and engraved myself for the Guide, but he sent an artist to draw them 

 afresh from the same points of view for the last edition. 



Mr. Fluitoft's model would be of service in drawing these profiles ; and perhaps 

 Mr. F. might be the likeliest person to do it. I may observe, there is one thing 

 not quite satisfactory in drawing a section ; if the vertical dimensions are on the 



