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ing districts of Leeds and Sheffield on to Nottingham. 

 Here an hour was agreeably spent in driving from 

 point to point, the most interesting of all being the 

 mass of New Red Sandstone on which the castle is 

 built. 



Next morning he was off betimes to the brick-pits, 

 which were a mile or more from Loughborough, return- 

 ing at mid-day laden with bags of gravel and packets 

 of specimens, having come upon Drift. Through a 

 bricklayer he had heard of another gravel -pit, and 

 started off on a new quest, for which there was just 

 time before getting into the train for Oxford. 



Already the country of Lochaber and the " Parallel 

 Roads " loomed like a beautiful vision in the dim dis- 

 tance. But this never-to-be-forgotten excursion was 

 followed at once by illness the manifest result of over- 

 fatigue of over -work. Happily he had reached his 

 home, where he had the best medical care and skill. 



The following letter was addressed to his friend the 

 day after arrival in Oxford : 



J. Prestwich to J. Evans. OXFORD, 29th August 1878. 



MY DEAR EVANS, We have just returned from Scotland, hav- 

 ing visited Stirling, Glencoe, Ballachulish, Glen Spean, Glen Eoy, 

 Oban, Inverary, Largs, Ayr, Stranraer, and Wigtown, and stopt 

 last Tuesday on our way back at Loughborough, to look again at 

 the pits unvisited last year, and which interest me much in con- 

 nection with my old heresy a diluvial theory, and a theory 

 which I think I shall now venture to revive before the Eoyal 

 Society, if they will listen to it. As soon as I get rid of a slight 

 attack of lumbago, which is on me to-day, we shall, I hope, go for 

 a few days to Paris. I suppose there is no chance of your being 

 there yet ? 



Afterwards, if time allow, we shall return to S. Wales to look 

 again at the glacial and diluvial phenomena there. 



