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but after a mile and a half found the roadway impass- 

 able. Our geologist, however, had full occupation at 

 Lulworth. The day was one of fervent heat, and the 

 tiny Acarus that pest of a Chalk district was seen 

 to cluster in large red blotches on the face of an 

 unfortunate donkey. 



Next to the Bill of Portland, the Chesil Bank ab- 

 sorbed his time and attention. Day after day he stood 

 on its ridge watching the sweep of the eddying cur- 

 rents : sometimes when a grand sea had risen and the 

 waves swept high up, sending their spray right over 

 the Bank ; sometimes in a calm, when on one occasion 

 there was an enormous haul inshore of mackerel. In 

 storm or calm, in rain or sunshine, as he stood on the 

 ridge listening to the scour and friction of the pebbles, 

 or speculating silently on the direction of the currents, 

 his tall figure was a familiar object to the fishermen of 

 the Chesil Beach. 



In a letter of this date to Mr Evans, he remarks 

 that he had never enjoyed any stay at the seaside 

 so much as this visit to Weymouth. 



Towards the end of September he was again at 

 work in the Boulonnais a district which had already 

 received many visits, and was destined to receive yet 

 more. On this occasion he was accompanied by his 

 old friend Mr Colchester, determinedly carrying out 

 the programme which he had planned for an Easter 

 excursion a year and a half before. Again he was 

 searching the district for traces of Drift and for Loess, 

 gleaning materials for those wide generalisations which 

 were to be embodied in subsequent papers. Much of 

 the ground traversed in the year preceding was further 

 worked over. M. Rigaux of Boulogne accompanied the 

 friends to several localities. 



