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elusions did not quite coincide with those expressed 

 on the maps of the Geological Survey. Writing to 

 Mrs. Ramsay from that remote cathedral town on the 3rd 

 August, he says : * To-day (Sunday) we have been at 

 the cathedral, and I sat in my old stall and sang bass. 

 But the music has sadly fallen off. The organ is dis- 

 mantled because of the repairs of the church, and there 

 is only a harmonium, and the singers are diminished. 

 Scott is slowly restoring the building, but there is still 

 a great deal to do, with as yet insufficient money. 



' To-morrow we take a boat and coast along for 

 eight or ten miles to re-examine the coast section. 

 The weather is splendid, and it will be delightful. 

 We have first-rate boatmen, one being the captain of 

 the lifeboat. . . . Now that I am here, it would never 

 do to leave the country without bringing the geology 

 of St. David's (which is now exciting so much atten- 

 tion) up to the modern mark. Considering how 

 ignorant I was in 1841, I wonder I did it so well.' 



Three days later, writing to the same corre- 

 spondent, he tells her : ' Probably we will start to- 

 morrow, drive up to Fishguard, and thence to Car- 

 digan. I shall refresh my memory on geological 

 points by the way. . . . This is a moist, hot climate, 

 like Cornwall. Your very clothes get damp, and your 

 gummed envelopes get also damp and seal them- 

 selves.' 



On his return to Beaumaris he sent me the fol- 

 lowing account of the trip into Pembrokeshire : * I 

 have been for a fortnight at St. David's seeing all 

 Hicks's discoveries among the Cambrian rocks and his 

 Menevian strata, which form a grey band, 550 feet 

 thick, between the uppermost purple Cambrian grits and 

 the bottom of the Lingula Flags. Fossils numerous, 



