1814-1840 APPOINTED TO GEOLOGICAL SURVEY 33 



he started on the last day of March, and arrived at 

 Tenby at one o clock in the morning of the 2nd of 

 April by the Phoenix, from Bristol, there to begin 

 a career in the Geological Survey which was to last 

 until he had risen to be the head of the service, and 

 one of the foremost geologists of his day. 



