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Accordingly, his sister retired to rest, with the parcel 

 of manuscripts on a sofa at the foot of her bed, and she 

 was heartily glad to hand it safely back to him. 



The home life, apparently so quiet, was a busy one. 

 Besides our geologist's daily journey to the City, there 

 were frequent demands upon his time, owing to his 

 official position as President of the Geological Society. 

 The most important paper during this year from his 

 pen was one sent in to this Society, " On the Crag of 

 Norfolk and Associated Beds." Among minor notices 

 he edited a MS., " On Earthquakes," written by his 

 kinsman, Sir John Prestwich, about the year 1798. It 

 is curious as a record of the crude notions on volcanic 

 phenomena prevalent so near to our own time. But 

 the engrossing interest was the elaboration of the third 

 and last of his series of Crag Memoirs, " On the 

 Norwich Crag and Westleton Beds," which was to 

 appear the following year. 



For the completion of this memoir several weeks 

 were spent at Lowest oft in the autumn, whence ex- 

 peditions were made again to many familiar localities 

 on the coast, including Gorton and Kessingland ; 

 repeated visits to pits near Norwich, and visits also 

 to Bacton, Wangford, Southwold, Pakefield, Easton 

 Bavent, &c., &c. Thirty-eight different localities were 

 explored in this East Coast excursion, and forty-nine 

 sections noted. He was intent on observing every trace 

 of Westleton Shingle, and on ascertaining the origin of 

 the boulders occurring in this district in the Boulder 

 Clay. The discovery of a specimen of gneiss in the 

 upper Boulder Clay near Kessingland has not been 

 forgotten. Its weight was beyond the power of any 

 ordinary mortal to carry, but aided by his sister-in-law, 

 with immense effort it was moved, or rather dragged, 



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