CHAPTEE XVI. 



CHARLES W. PEACH, A.L.S. 



WHILE Bobert Dick was searching for organic remains 

 among the rocks at Thurso during his leisure hours, 

 another scientific labourer was occupied in the same 

 manner at the opposite end of the island, among the 

 rocks of Cornwall. Eobert Dick had discovered numer- 

 ous remains of fossil fishes in Caithness, where distin- 

 guished geologists had stated that no fossil fishes were 

 to be found ; and Charles William Peach had discovered 

 fossil fishes in Cornwall, though it had also been stated 

 that the rocks there were non-fossiliferous. While the 

 one was disturbing the echoes of Pudding-gyoe, the other 

 was hammering in Heady-Money Cove. The two were 

 working simultaneously amongst rocks of the same 

 epoch, and the results of their labours were in a remark- 

 able degree alike. 



The Cornish worker in science was then but a private 

 in the mounted coastguard service. Like Dick, in his 

 hours of leisure he found time to add materially to the 

 facts upon which geology is based. Thus, at the same 

 time, Hugh Miller, originally a stonemason, Eobert 

 Dick, a working baker, and Charles William Peach, a 

 private in the coastguard service, were all engaged 



