1850 SURVEY SONG 161 



The Survey needs no strangers 



No scurvy council s bother ; 

 We ll work with Daddy De La Beche, 



And stick to one another ; 

 With six-inch sections, maps, reports, 

 We yet shall see the day 



When Carlisle 



Shall blandly smile, 

 And double all our pay, 

 And every man shall keep his wife when he doubles all our pay. 



The last day of April found Ramsay once more 

 with Selwyn and Jukes at Merchlyn in North Wales. 

 There were still various unfinished parts of his area to 

 revisit and complete, likewise sundry lines regarding 

 which he had to confer with his colleagues. The 

 progress of the work rendered it necessary that some 

 of the ground already surveyed should be gone over 

 again in the light of fresh evidence. And after the 

 surveys were completed there remained the laborious 

 task of running horizontal sections across the area, 

 including the most rugged and mountainous ground. 

 These occupations, together with occasional visits of 

 inspection, kept him busy in Wales until December 

 a long spell of field-work, only interrupted by a brief 

 visit to London, the meeting of the British Association 

 at Edinburgh, and an excursion to Dublin for the pur 

 pose of seeing his friend Oldham married. The life 

 he led during those nine months is told in his diary 

 and letters. 



4^/2 May. Out on the hills with Selwyn as far as 

 the cliffs under Carnedd Llewelyn, and down by 

 Melynllyn and Llyn dulyn. Got some good work 

 done. Selwyn executed a most perilous feat of cliff- 

 climbing ; a slip and he would have been slain. 



I5//2. Out again by Fawnog du and Carnedd 

 Llewelyn. Its bald head was powdered with snow. 



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