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57 ST. STEPHEN'S GREEN, DUBLIN, 

 August 1849. 



MY DEAR RAMSAY Here I am once again. We had a famous 

 passage last evening, and to-day I start, with Oldham, to the south^ 



If you go to the Wisdom Meeting [the meeting of the British 

 Association at Birmingham], we can talk over some of our matters ; 

 and if not, I would get down to you afterwards. Matters are in 

 good train at the Muzzy, and all going right, as it looks now ; trumps 

 will turn up there, I trust, next spring. 



Rattling by the skirts of the Welsh hills last evening, the clouds 

 seemed somewhat low, and looking up the valley of the Conway, I 

 thought of the wet bother you have lately had, and of the trouble- 

 some quarters you are now in. 'Tis very tiresome for you. Once 

 out of the high grounds of Wales, and we shall rapidly move ahead. 

 Very sincerely, H. T. DE LA BECHE. 



Ramsay did attend the ' Wisdom Meeting,' making 

 a rapid journey thither, and acting with Jukes and 

 Oldham as Secretaries of the Geological Section. But 

 he was soon back at work again in North Wales. 

 After carrying his boundary-lines from the Llanberis 

 district northwards, until he had joined them up to those 

 which had been mapped from Bangor, he left Llan- 

 beris on the 3rd September and stationed himself at 

 Capel Curig, with the view of working out the structure 

 of the group of mountains rising to the east of Nant 

 Francon. Mr. Aveline was at work in the district 

 lying to the north-east, and the two colleagues were 

 enabled before the end of the season to join up their 

 lines. Mr. Selwyn, having completed the survey of 

 the ground lying between the Snowdon range on the 

 north and Ffestiniog and Tremadoc on the south, 

 was now at work in the Lleyn peninsula from Pwlheli. 

 But there were still several portions of boundary to 

 be settled along his northern limits. Ramsay had 

 thus occasion to visit both his comrades from the 

 central station of Capel Curig. 



