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334 Mr: Farey’s Notes on Mr. Bakewell’s Geology. 
[{P.292] Stone for them, and the Walls, searching for Slate, (Rep.i. 
p. 154, at bottom), &c. &c. will greatly increase, instead of 
diminishing, the means of observation and of understanding 
the internal structure of this curious district. 
293, 1. 17 and 18, covered with Limestone*.— * On their 
western side only ?, P.M. xl. p. 54. 
294, 1. 18, natural history of the island *.—* In August 1807, 
the materials were begun to be collected, on a comprehensive 
plan, for a Mineral Map and History of Derbyshire and its 
Environs, and the field work thereof was persevered in, until 
November 1509: an abstract of all the most generally use- 
ful parts of which, were purchased by the Board of Agri- 
culture (Derby Rep. i. p. v. and vi.), and 150/. paid to me 
for the same, on the 29th of April 1810. In the following 
Month, Mr. Arthur Aikin§f issued a Prospectus of the Shrop- 
shire Survey here alluded to by Mr. B., the field business of 
which is yet in hand, I believe. 
On the 12th of June I waited on the Board, by desire, 
and, as [ had before done, produced and explaimed my large 
and reduced Mineral Maps, Sections, &c.4]Q and a part of 
the MS. of the Ist vol. of my Derby Report, (since published 
' by the Board in June 1511); soon after I retired, the Session 
of the Board for the year 1810 was closed, by a long Speech 
from the President Sir John Sinclair, which was soon after 
printed and circulated. In this Speech, a general review was, 
as usual, taken, of the proceedings of the Board, as to the 
commencement, progress or conclusion, of any part of the 
labours intrusted to them by the Government and the Coun- 
try; and herein it was stated, that the Board had recently 
patronized the Survey of Shropshire by Mr. Aikin, con- 
cluding thus, ‘‘ and which is the first attempt of the sort, 
on a regular and extensive plan ;”’ and yet, not a mention or 
{ One of the Council and Secretaries of the Geological Society, see a 
Note in my 1st Letter, vol. xlii. p. 56. 
qq Mr. William Smith has in like manner, on different occasions, attended 
meetings of the Board of Agriculture, and submitted and explained his 
* Mineral Maps and Sections, of great part of England, as I have mentioned 
or hinted, P. M. vol. xxxix. p. 426, and xxxv. p. 114. In Mr. S. and my 
own cases, the matters thus submitted, in hopes of obtaining the efficient 
patronage, for-lack of which, they are yet unavailable by the Public, (P.M. 
xlii. p. 109 and 246) were not merely, proposals aud promises of field- 
business, intended to be undertaken, and of Maps, &c. to be prepared there- 
from: but the (urge Maps, Sections, &c. themselves, which had been the re- 
sults of unwearied researches for years, and of expenses to the parties, al- 
most beyond their private means.—Mr, A’s patronage, and Geognostic 
connections, will, it is hoped, produce to him a very different and more 
agreeable result. 
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