128 CHRONICLES OF A CLAY FARM. 



questions they contained, as varied as the Postmarks 

 they bore, he threw his eyes up at a many-coloured 

 Geological Map of the United Kingdom, hanging 

 close beside him, and pictured to himself the possi- 

 bility, and the value, of just such a Map, with its 

 strong colours under-shaded by the * Agricultural 

 customs' that further sub-divide its geological out- 

 lines. The curiously contrasted interrogatories sup- 

 plied by the letters he had waded through for 

 questions are mostly fertile in self-disclosure 

 would almost have furnished rudely the outlines of 

 such a Map. Perhaps, thought he, before the cen- 

 tury is out, the dream of 1835 may become an useful 

 reality. 



'In which there is Antagonism of interest yet Mutuality of object.' 



