months of May and June in the Capital, 

 he was a guest every week during his 

 stay, and similar hospitality awaited him 

 at the " Crown and Anchor " tavern as 

 long as he lived 1 . 



During his journeys from and to his 

 Yorkshire home, now by one route, now 

 by another, on horseback or by carriage, 

 or in such public coaches as then plied 

 on the roads between London and the 

 Midlands, Michell appears to have paid 

 close attention to the outcrops and suc- 

 cession of the rock-formations across 

 which he travelled. There was probably 

 no one else so familiar as he with the 

 various quarries, pits and other exposures 

 of these rocks to be seen from the high 

 roads. In the leisurely fashion of those 

 days he would sometimes halt for a night 

 or two on the way, and on these occasions 

 would take advantage of the opportunity 

 of obtaining the evidence to be found in 



1 Annah ef tti Royal Society Club^ pp. 74, 77, 

 165. 



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