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tributed, while Mr. Smith was soliciting the names of subscribers 

 for the publication of his Map and Memoir*), set forth very fully, 

 what were the objects and advantages to various classes of the 

 community, as well as to science, which would result from tb.e 

 diffusion of the knowledge regarding the Strata which had then 

 recently been acquired. 



13th. Having, from the first commencement of his tracing 

 and mapping the British strata, in the most free and unreserved 

 manner commiiniLated, to all the various mine, colliery, or 

 (juarry Owners, Ai^enfs, lVo>kmen,8cc. witii whom he conversed 

 on the spots, almost throuuhout England and Wales, and to 

 scientific Men and others, in general f, whatever they wished to 

 ask, regarding the principles and process, on which his investiga- 

 tions had been commenced and carried on, to the state in which 

 his liJap, Sections and Collection, were then shown to them; and 

 as to the general conckisions,oi every kind, which he had drawn 

 therefrom ; and to Mr. John Farey in particular, the agent at 

 Woburn, for the late Duke of Bedford's estates, at his Grace's 

 particular request (made before Mr. Farey had ever heard the 

 name of Mr. Smith mentioned) a full and particular course of 

 instructions were given, in Mineral Surveying, by Mr. Smith |j 

 at the time of revising his Map of the adjacent parts of Bedford- 

 shire and Buckinghamshire: such as, joined with his own pre- 

 vious acquirements and industry has enabled Mr. Farey, since 

 the decease of his Grace, extensively to practise Mineral Sur~ 

 veying in new situations, almost throughout Great Britain. 



14th. Having, at very considerable trouble and expense, 

 brought together and arranged, « numerous Collection of Sped' 

 '•Hens oj the several English and Welsh Strata, from numero7is 

 and distant Places (all of which were marked) on the range of 



• On the 1st of July 1801 , the editor of the Monthly Magazine, in vol. si. 

 p. 525, published a distinct notice of this prospectus. 



t For several years after 1800, Mr. Smith made a point of attending nearly 

 all the pnblic Agricultural Exhibitions of the Bath Society ; ?.Ir. Coke, at 

 Molkham; tiie f)uke of Bedford, at Woburn ; and of Lord Someiville, and 

 the Sraithfield Club, in London, and there piihlichj hung up and shoiced his 

 Map of the Strata, to many hundreds of intelligent persons : which fact has 

 very often been recorded in the newspaper accounts of the proceedings of 

 these meetings; see the Star of the 21st of Juae 1S04, p. 4: Phil. Mag, 

 vol. XXXV. p. 114, &c. 



X To whom Mr. Farcy made this acknowledgement in the most hand- 

 some terms, in Feb. 1810, in the Piiilos. Magazine, vol. xxxv. p. 1 14 ; also 

 in a paper read to the Koyal Society on 21st March 1811. Phil. Trans. 1812; 

 and in June 1811, in his Derbyshire Report, vol. i. p. 1 10; and on very nu- 

 merous other occasions, in the last twenty-five volumes of the Philosophical 

 Magazine, aad in several other works, Mr. F. has also stood forward, zcal- 

 ouily, and with effect, to a.'isert Mr. Smith's claims, as herein set forth. 



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