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good-natured and seemed highly amused, I question 

 if he perfectly understood the humour of the thing. 



By the 8th of the month Ramsay had joined a 

 large Survey party assembled at Cerrig y druidion, 

 from which centre they were working out the structure 

 of the country to the north and east of Bala. On the 

 9th he makes the following entry : 



* Held a consultation over some trappy specimens 

 in the morning. After that went out with Smyth, 

 Jukes, Selwyn, Gibbs, and the dogs, to look at 

 Jukes s ash-beds. We had a goodish day s work on 

 bits of detail. Jukes should have showed me some 

 thing larger, but detail seems his forte. He is ever in 

 doubt, even when nearly convinced, about little things, 

 and yet grasps the subject so well notwithstanding, 

 that he produces better work and understands it better 

 than any man on the Survey. 1 Next day one of the 

 canine companions of the party, Jukes s dog Governor, 

 amused himself by slaying a sheep, which cost his 

 master 75. 6d. In the course of a long walk we got 

 well drenched going, dried again coming back, and 

 were re-wet before we got home. 



De la Beche was at this time in North Wales with 

 his daughter, taking a share in the field-work by 

 tracing some of the boundary -lines of the igneous 

 rocks of Caernarvonshire. He asked Ramsay to join 

 him at Beddgelert, and to accompany him in a kind 

 of prospecting excursion through the country around 

 Snowdon, and thence into Anglesey. This was the 

 first introduction of the younger geologist to that 

 intricate piece of geology, in the ultimate unravelling 



1 The reader, as already mentioned, will find an interesting record of the 

 friendship between Ramsay and Jukes in the Letters of the latter, likewise 

 glimpses into the life of the Survey men in North Wales. 



