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taken. Owing to a storm of wind and rain, an attempt 

 to drive across at low tide to Lihou Island was un- 

 successful. Prestwich, however, utilised the time by 

 sketching a roadside quarry inland, when the driver 

 did his best to hold an umbrella over him. After one 

 wild gust the umbrella continued to shake in a very 

 odd manner, when the occupants of the carriage saw 

 that the driver was so much overcome by suppressed 

 laughter that he could not hold it steadily. The 

 enthusiasm that impelled the tall elderly gentleman 

 to stand in a gale of wind and rain, drawing the rocks 

 as if his life depended on it, must have been a puzzle. 

 The visit to Lihou was eventually made, the raised 

 beach on its sea - front, and not its manufactory of 

 iodine, being the attraction. 



The precipitous character of much of the Jersey coast 

 prevented the same unbroken line of research round it. 

 Wherever possible, a careful examination was made 

 coastwise and inland ; and evidences of raised beaches 

 at different levels were in sufficient number to reward 

 the explorer. 



After a night at Avranches and one at Coutances, 

 the coast round Cherbourg on to near Cape la Hague 

 was the subject of the same quest. 



The next halting-place was the familiar ground of 

 Alum Bay, which, it might be supposed, Prestwich 

 knew pretty well by heart, yet along coasts made up 

 of such soft strata changes are constantly in progress, 

 and eight pages of his note-book give new sections of 

 Headon Hill, and also of Totlands and of Col well Bays. 

 The drive along the coast was by the little-used mili- 

 tary road from Freshwater to Black Gang Chine, his 

 interest centring in that well-known spot, classical to 

 geologists Brook Bay. As a matter of course, sections 



