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up a horse daily. Sir Henry did most of the Preseley 

 traps. You will find remarks of his on the maps that 

 may help you a little. 



Are the Cambrians coloured on the copy of the 

 Map you have with you ? On Nos. i to 5 you will 

 find some useful hints about them near St. David's, 

 and on Nos. 6 and 7 you will find them mapped in 

 some sort of way pretty carefully. You must judge 

 for yourself whether it will now and then be needful to 

 cut it fine and alter old lines. I have a notion that 

 most of mine are good, viz. all those west of St. 

 Lawrence and Mathry ; all between Little Newcastle 

 and Trefgarn ; also those between Fishguard, New- 

 port, and the River Gwaen. The rest I know little 

 about, though I did some of them. 



Finally, do not spare horse-flesh or car-hire to do 

 it quickly. 



As soon as it was possible for him to join his 

 trusted colleague, Ramsay made his way into Pem- 

 brokeshire. He had not been back there since his 

 early days in the Survey. The inspection had thus a 

 double interest for him. To Mrs. Ramsay from Dale, 

 on the 1 3th November, he writes : ' We were to-day at 

 West Angle Bay in a sailing boat, which I had the 

 satisfaction of steering a thing that always gives me 

 supreme delight. I have a passion for steering boats 

 in a good breeze, and we had one. The only alloy 



to Talbot and myself was 's stupidity with the 



sailors ; he gave them so much good advice ! ' On 

 the 1 8th, having reached St. David's, he announced 

 to his wife that ' no guests being expected, the pro- 

 vision was rather scarce, consisting of four very brown 

 and dry mutton-chops. However, with the help of 



