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. 



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