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sediments, and, on the other, into undoubted eruptive 

 material. After spending some time on Caer Caradoc 

 and Hope Bowdler he went to Bishop's Castle, and 

 on the first day of the stay there makes the following 

 entry : ' \st October. Went out to take a turn on the 

 traps and altered rocks at Upper Hublast (sic). Found 

 that they had been injected into and highly baked the 

 Wenlock shales, and in one place, as I thought, fairly 

 melted them, so that part of this must be mapped trap. 

 Forbes and I had a tough argument on this head, for 

 I fancied I could trace a gradual change from the 

 genuine baked Wenlocks into melted beds. This he 

 would not allow, so we both became hot, and neither 

 gave in. We were doubtless partly both right.' 



Edward Forbes was an excellent artist. He could 

 with great rapidity catch the likeness of any one whom 

 he wished to portray, while his poetical temperament, 

 his vivid imagination, and his keen sense of humour 

 enabled him to convert his likenesses into idealised 

 portraits or comical caricatures, as the impulse moved 

 him. At Dolaucothi he made pictorial contributions 

 to the ladies' albums, in which the various members of 

 the household figured. His landscape sketches were 

 likewise often admirable. His artistic eye enabled 

 him to seize and delineate accurately the general effect 

 of a scene, while his geological knowledge helped to 

 guide him in expressing its dominant features. Ramsay, 

 though not so gifted in this respect, was not without a 

 measure of artistic capacity. His early drawings of 

 Arran scenery were remarkably good, and his note- 

 books contain many characteristic sepia -sketches of 

 the landscapes through which his official duties led 

 him to wander. On this tour with Forbes, not being 

 able to walk, he seems to have consoled himself by 



