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hearty, cordial, fellow-feeling. They communicated to 

 each other everything that they found which was new. 

 There was never the slightest feeling of jealousy between 

 them. The last verses that Dick wrote to Peach were 

 as follows : 



; ' Ye lang hae toddled roun' the land, 

 An' hammer'd far and near ; 

 But feint a fossil ye hae fand 

 Your drooping heart to cheer ! 



" A broken wee bit fish or twa, 

 . A doubtfu' bit o' stane, 



Ye carried south, wi' muckle blaw, 

 To chiels, wha skeel had nane. 



" A puff they whispered in your lug, 

 And ye came laughin' name, 

 Weel drooked wi' the Hieland fog, 

 And fand the whole a dream." 



But Mr. Peach did find more fossils. In 1863, 

 while working at Sarclet, on the Wick side of the 

 county, he found part of a fossil crustacean in the Eed 

 Sandstone, rising from beneath the flag-beds.* Sir 



sum in a little purse to Sir Roderick Murchisoii, requested him " to 

 assure Mr. Peach of the pleasure which the Council and Society had in 

 thus publicly acknowledging the perseverance, acumen, and love of 

 Natural History pursuits evinced by Mr. Peach, and especially the 

 advantages accruing to geological science from his researches among 

 the oldest palaeozoic rocks, both at the southern and northern extremi- 

 ties of the island, he having been the first to tiud fossil remains in 

 the old altered rocks of Sutherlandshire and Cornwall." 



* Mr. Pe:iuh says that the first specimen of this fossil was found by 

 Mr. R. Shearer, but that he afterwards found two other body segment) 

 ft short distance from the same place. 

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