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the Museum work heavy and fatiguing. In 1876 he 

 brought out a useful pamphlet, ' On the Geological 

 Conditions affecting the Water-Supply to Houses and 

 Towns, with Special Reference to the Needs of Oxford.' 



About this time also he read a paper to the Ash- 

 molean Society, in which he drew attention to an 

 artesian well of mineral water at St Clement's, a 

 suburb of Oxford, its nearest allies among English 

 waters being those of Cheltenham and Leamington. 

 The existence of this well had been known to Dr 

 Buckland, who in 1835 had given notice of it to the 

 Geological Society ; afterwards it had dropped into 

 oblivion. Prestwich expressed his opinion that the 

 water of St Clement's had its origin in the New Red 

 Sandstone, consequently that the Coal Measures might 

 not be far below a point to him of great interest. 



Frequent visits at Christmas were made to the 

 Manor House at Old Eastbourne, which Mr and Mrs 

 Russell Scott tenanted for several years. The latter 

 gave her two guests the frequent use of the carriage, 

 when they were out as long as daylight lasted, and 

 when the amount of country traversed was startling 

 to the coachman, who had then been fifty years in 

 Mr Scott's service. When out, on one long day, 

 several miles from Eastbourne, and when directed by 

 the Professor to drive up a steep chalk slope by a sort 

 of rough track, the old coachman turned round and said 

 gravely, and with due respect " Sir, I would do a 

 great deal for you, Mr Prestwich, but I could not take 

 my horses up there." 



Then the faithful servant glanced again at the sup- 

 posed road, and at its utter impracticability, and burst 

 into such a fit of laughter that the two occupants of 

 the carriage could not help joining heartily with him. 



