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its best, Mr and Mrs Prestwich being there during 

 August and part of September, occupying rooms near 

 those of other members of the family, with whom joint 

 excursions were made. The isle of Portland and the 

 Chesil Beach were the chief attractions. It cannot be 

 averred that visits were paid to them every day, as 

 there were long expeditions to Dorchester, Maiden 

 Castle, and Blackdown, near Portisham (the geology 

 of this hill of gravel being a special object), and sep- 

 arate days to Osmington, Preston, Lulworth, Abbots- 

 bury, &c., also to Fleet and Up way. But on every 

 day possible, Prestwich was off by steamboat or by 

 road with hammer and bag, to Portland and the Chesil 

 Beach. In the expedition to Maiden Castle and Black- 

 down his old friend Mr Edward Cunnington accom- 

 panied the party, Prestwich breathlessly busy in col- 

 lecting, from various levels, specimens from the gravel 

 of rolled and subangular flints, and of quartz, slate, and 

 other pebbles. He was much interested in finding on 

 the road to Dorchester a long hill on the right capped 

 with precisely the same gravel as at Blackdown, but 

 about 300 to 400 feet lower in level. Mr E. Cunning- 

 ton also joined one of the excursions to Abbotsbury, 

 when, besides the geology, an inspection was made of 

 the swannery and the decoy. 



Prestwich paid one visit to Portland with Mr J. C. 

 Mansel-Pleydell, 1 the Rev. Osmond Fisher, 2 and Captain 

 Galton the last - named being his guest. He con- 

 ducted these three friends to the Admiralty Quarries 

 Captain Clifton, the Governor of the Convict Prison, 



1 President of the Dorset Natural History Society. Author of works 

 on the Natural History of Dorset. 



2 Author of 'Physics of the Earth's Crust,' and many geological and 

 mathematical papers. 



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