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NNW and SSE for many miles, as I was told, T obliquely 
descended the edge of this lower Rock, passed through 
Ripley, and was proceeding on Coal-measures towards 
High Harrowgate, when unfortunately it grew dusk, and 
wight soon prevented my seeing the very interesting country 
thence to Leeds, as it had previously done through several 
miles of my approach to Newcastle, and to Perth in my: 
return, and to Nairn, and to Bank-house in the southern 
extremity of Edinburgh county, in my way North: inter- 
ruptions to the course of my Observations, which I much 
Jament, but could not avoid without the loss of a day in each 
case (which I could not spare) and much extra expense for 
post-chaises, which Talways avoid, also, when I can obtain 
a much more favourable seat for observation om a mail ot 
stage coach, with the privilege secured, of a seat inside in 
case of night coming on, or of rain, &c. which would pre- 
yent the constant recording of my observations. 
From Leeds I hastened to Ashover, and with my son’s 
assistance (William F.) who had previously resumed the 
Survey of Ashover and its vicinity, (that we began in the 
preceding year) by the middle of November, we had so far 
proceeded, that a Report thereon could be made up, my 
Maps copied, &c.* which, and those relating to my ae 
lan 
_* Thave great reason now to wish, that I could recall or expunge the 
Jast paragraph in page ix of the preface to vol. ii. of my Derby Report, 
published in February last: a paper, of 120 closely written folio pages having 
been prepared by me, under the advice and copied after the repeated 
perusal of G. B. Greenough, Esq. the late President of the Geological Society, 
was presented through him to that Body on the 4th of February last, ac- 
companied by a Mineral Map, filled up with the strata of more than thirty 
square miles including Ashover, on a scale of 14 inch to a mile; these were 
in addition, and by Mr. G.’s desire prepared, for explaining a jatge Section 
from actual survey, of the strata for more than seven miles in length of 
surface, crossing Ashover, and an attached and corresponding Mop of the 
strata and every object on the surface, half a mile wide, on a scale of 10 
inches to a mile, which Section had been conditionally presented and left with 
the Society since March 1812, by desire of Sir Joseph Banks, Bart., formerly 
a member thereof. 
I heard nothing from the Society, until towards the end of April, when I 
received a Letter acknowledging (according to a printed form) the receipt 
of my paper, &c. and a few days after there appeared in yours and the 
Journal of Mr. Nicholson, a similar paper (sent officially as I have been 
informed) from the Geological Society, as a Report of their proceedings. 
About a month after this, in consequence of aremonstrance on my part to 
Mr. G. on some reports and circumstances of a novel kind that had reached 
me, regarding my paper and Maps, he introduced a Gentleman to me, who 
a short time after called on me, and among other things told me, that the 
forth-cuming volume of the Society's Transactions was intrusted to him, and 
nothing would appear therein but what he approved; that the ideas of the 
Council were averse to the ge fay of my paper, he believed he could 
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