. Mr. Farey’s Reply to Mr. Bakeweil’s Letter. 167 
proceedings towards me, few will hereafter doubt, I think, 
who have impartially read his Geology and my Notes 
thereon, which through your kinduess shall appear, as fast 
as is consistent with the claims of your other Correspon- 
dents; and although Mr. B. will doubtless accuse me, of 
introducing much therein that is extraneous, I have reason 
to hope, that mew facts, and references to published and 
‘perhaps forgotten ones, with inferences drawn therefrom, 
bearing on the points under discussion, will not be deemed 
impertinent by you, sir, or by a large portion of your readers. 
That Mr. B. who so rarely in his Geology or his Letters, 
distinguishes those local Geological observations which he 
has himself made from those which he has borrowed from 
others, and still more rarely has marked the situations with 
precision; should deem it impertinent in me (p. 124), to 
have distinguished those places which I had seen in my 
Jate excursion, from those which I had not seen, and which 
1 otherwise might have been supposed to be equally ac- 
quainted with, I am not at all surprised: but that in his 
sneers at my ‘‘ stage-coach Geology,” as he is pleased to 
term it, he should say, that from the top of a coach, ‘* the 
colour of rocks” ‘§ is almost all that can be seen,” is very 
extraordinary, and will stand against him, as I shall show be- 
low, as a proof, of his small acquaintance with the Smitbian. 
principles of Mineral Surveying (see p. 105), high as his 
pretensions stand on this head, Geo. p. 361. 
Mr. B. bas not the claim of qriginality in this snecr at 
€* stage-coach Geology ;”’ for a similar one appeared in the 
Edinburgh Review, several months ago, in a Review of the 
celebrated Survey of the Environs of Paris, of which a pre- 
liminary Abstract is inserted in your xxxvth volume, p. 36, 
and whereon several remarks.of mine are made, at page 113, 
In these remarks (note on p. 130), I mentioned having 
made and circulated among my friends, in 1806, a Section 
of the Strata between London and Brighton, in order to 
show the leading facts of the Great Southern Denydation, 
which I had discovered in the preceding year (Rep. i. 
117 N); and to obtain their corrections and further obser- 
vations. 
From that anxiety which I then felt, and trust that I al- 
ways shall feel, to show as clearly as possible, the grounds 
on which my Geological deductions have heen founded, L 
mentioned in the Title thereon, the different joprneys * an 
per, coaches,” which I had made along this line, while 
collecting and reyising my materials. Qne of these copies 
Ls happening 
