426 Mr. Farey's Remarks on the Account of 



the extensive and systematic observations of Mr. G. hinir 

 self, and ihe more local observations of others on the Bri- 

 tish strata, und with most of what has been from timt- to 

 time published on the British strata, and on the unstraufied 

 districts of Coniwall, the central and northern parts of 

 Wales, the Malvern Hiils, Charnwood Forest, parts of 

 Westmoreland, CumUrland, and Northnniberland, &c. 

 and of great part of Scotland (with which last districts 

 Mr, Smith had not much concerned himstrlf ), are, doubt- 

 less, much more extensive and correct, than anvthinu tliat 

 Mr. B. would be able to produce, or at least, to which he 

 could justly lay claim, without acktiowledgement of the 

 sources whence he derived pirt at hast of his fnaterials. 

 I Aas, thcreiure, and still am desirous, sir, of thinking, 

 that Mr. B. only intended to sav, liiat this was the first 

 time that a Geological Map of Enoland had been ex- 

 hibited in a course of public Lectures expressly on the 

 subject; which yet, if it be litera ly true, will scarcely 

 render this cl aim of IVJr. B. a fair one, as it is stated, 

 when it js considered, that Mr. Greenough's Maps have, 

 pften / believe, been exhibited to aei. logical assemblies of 

 persons, and that Mr. Smith's were more than once, I be- 

 lieve, exhibited to numerous irieetings of the Board of 

 Agriculture, and have so olten been sho'vn pul)liclv, at 

 meetings congenial with Mr. B.'s previous pursuits in life*, 

 at Oath, Wuburn, Holkham, G.)Svvell-street, &c. as I have 

 nient'oned in your xxxvth vol. p. 114, and elsewhere. Let 

 it not be snppysed, that I am herein laying any claim to a 

 Geological Map Of Ehgland of my own, T^ince it is well 

 known to my IVicnds, that the obligations which I have felt 

 myself under to Mr. SrnU'i, as ihe ori'jrinal prarl'ner and 

 promoter of useful mid general innat'i gal ions of the Strata, 

 have, as itiucIi as ihe want of time for it, prevented my 

 atteirfplintr any general Map, such as those of Mr. Smith 

 and Mr. Greeuough a'.xive menuoned : while at the same 

 time, I have never been backward, in the verv frequent in- 

 terviews With w'licn I have been honoured bv the latter 

 gentleman, lo cimmiinicare or contribute any thing wiihiu 

 my kn.i.vIeJgc, towards the pericciingof his Map, always 

 rciymg, as I d<s that no publication of it will .ever take 

 place, without at th.- same tnie, rendering ample acknow- 

 ledgements to Mr. S-niih, from whose useful libours the 

 ■ground' work, and much of the materials in the siiperstruc- 

 ture have been obtami d. 



While 'F am upon the subject of Mr. BakewcH's Lectures, 



• I allude here, to his iuvestigations and work on JVool, 



or 



