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exertion. Yet the scarcity of food, or rather the ab- 

 stention from food that he could not eat, did not 

 trouble him in the very least, though it did trouble 

 his companion. He was so absorbed and delighted 

 with the Drift and the fragments of a raised beach, 

 that he only thought of the details of the day being 

 entered in a note-book. 



Next morning they called on the Rev. Ponsonby 

 and Mrs Lucas, to whom they had a letter of intro- 

 duction, the former the brother of the late Lady 

 Gardner Wilkinson. They had heard of a gentleman 

 and lady passing the night in the village, and had been 

 compassionating them on account of the unprecedented 

 heat. When Professor Prestwich expressed his inten- 

 tion to send his wife across country in the waggonette, 

 while he himself should walk along the shore north of 

 Rhos Sili Bay, so as to examine the coast, Mr Lucas 

 most kindly volunteered to accompany him. The long 

 walk with its traces of old beach was one of surpassing 

 interest to the geologist, who also came upon vestiges 

 of Drift, but it caused Mr Lucas a serious illness. The 

 heat was so great that they could not sit down to rest 

 on the glowing sands, and many weeks passed before 

 Mr Lucas recovered. 



Prestwich prophesied a future for Rhos Sili and its 

 stretch of beautiful sands, that one day it would be- 

 come a great sea-side resort. He found traces of 

 raised beach at Burry Holmes, Sprit sail Point, and at 

 the station next beyond Llanelly. 



The drive from Haverfordwest to St David's was a 

 comparative rest, but at the end of a week of severe 

 climbing up and down the old rocks on the rugged 

 coast of St David's, to Porthclais, Caerbuddy, Porth- 

 lisky, not forgetting a day at Whitesand Bay, he was 



