Mr. Farei/s Hephj to Mr. W. H. Gilly. 341 



But to be serious, and to show that no wrong has been dcr.e 

 bv me to Mr. G., but the contrary. I beg to point out to hia) 

 and your Readers, that so far from he having, " full half a year" 

 previous to me, pointed out the unconforrnableness of the Red 

 Marl, the reference that was so distinctly before him in p. 107 

 (viz. to p. 330 of vour xliiid volume) will show, ihat Jive months 

 before any comviunical'ion frmn him appeared, I had not only 

 pointed out, a new and perfect case of this uJiconformableneJis 

 (unknown to him) at Bedworth in Warwickshire, but had di- 

 stinctly and correctly referred to the Papers of ?vlr. John Strachey, 

 published in 17 19 and 17- '», which described hh (Mr. G's) whole 

 case of the same nature in the vicinity of Bath and Bristol ! ; and 

 also, that I had expressly hwited your Correspondents, to make 

 and communicate observations on this point. I might there- 

 fore, with far more justice than Mr. G., complain of his want 

 of candour, in silently passing by my previous notice and invi- 

 tation. 



I have, however, higher charges to prefer against Mr. G. for 

 endeavouring, by the authority of Mr, Jameson's name (I hope 

 without his sanction?) to " manoeuvre for himself a gloria," and 

 *' plume himself" with merit, that so very justly helongs to Mr. 

 Strachey, long siiice dead, whose accou7ils and two sections, 

 most distinctly mention and shoia the overHeins; and nnconfor- 

 mable posilion of the Etd Marie, &c. on the inclined Coal- 

 measures of that district: — and that Mr. G. made this arroQanl 

 flaim, not entirely without a knov.-ledge of what Mr. Strachey 

 had done, must I think be inferred, from page 245 of his first 

 paper, v/herein ho mentions the description of Stowey and Far- 

 rington Collieries (by Mr. Strachey) in vol. xxx. of Phil. Trans. 

 for 1719, but ascribes the same to " a Mr. JVilliams," contrary 

 to all the facts contained in tlie volume quoted ! !. 



In like manner, I cannot altogether acquit Mr. G. of want of 

 CHudour at least, if not of injustice, towards my friend Mr. Smith, 

 wiiose prior labours in the same field he could not be in the least 

 ignorant of, from Mr, Townsend's work, which he so often re- 

 fers to in his first paper ; and if Mr. G. reallv went over the 

 ground which he describes, it is next to impossible, I think, but 

 that numbers of persons there, must have told him, that the sama 

 observations had been made, and a Map of the strata drawn, 

 and which had lieen exhibited among tliem for many years by 

 Mr. Smith; who did not secretly do this, in a corner, but made 

 a point of attending the Bath Society's Meetings and other si- 

 milar occasions of public resort, to freely exhibit and explain his 

 Map and Sections of the district, now so long after claimed, to 

 hejiiit triiUj described by Mr. G.H 



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