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Manchester: “The evening turned dull, and the wind being a head, 
the steam, dust, etc., was very annoying — a particle of iron got into 
my right eye and remained there two days — the swagging of the 
carriages was as bad to me as the paved roads — the noise in the 
open air so great that I could not hear my companion who sat 
opposite me, and when we passed under an arch it was like a crash 
of thunder. We passed two trains of first class, and one of the 
second called the ‘Pig boxes,’ crammed with passengers. Each 
carriage (1st class) consists of three bodies, and carries 20 
passengers.” 
We may well feel thankful that even the Great Eastern Eaihvay 
has improved upon this state of affairs. Subsequently he booked 
from Manchester to Nottingham by the Lady Nelson coach, starting 
at G a.m., and journeying through Derbyshire by Buxton and 
Matlock to Derby, thence to Nottingham, where he arrives just in 
time to get the coach to Newark, passing Southwell Minster on 
the way. At Newark he arrives at 7 p.m., and takes the oppor- 
tunity of seeing the Castle the same evening. He left Newark at 
G o’clock next morning, and travelling by Sleaford, Lynn, and 
Dereham, reaches Norwich at 8 p.m. 
At this period from about July 17th to August 7th there were 
three weeks of hot weather without rain. 
In June, 1836, he was again in London seeking health, though 
mostly in visiting friends, and attending scientific meetings. 
In September the Marquis of Northampton, well known for the 
attention he paid to geology, visits Grove Cottage, Lakenliam, 
to see his collection. 
About this time Mr. Joseph Prestwich (now Professor of 
Geology at Oxford) paid his first visit to the Thorpe Crag-pit 
under his guidance, and then obtained a large and fine molar of 
the Elcphas meridioncdis, which ho gave to my grandfather, and 
which subsequently was placed in the Norwich Museum. 
Some doubts having been thrown on the occurrence of the 
Mastodon in Norfolk by Eobert Bakewell, he briefly records the 
evidence in the ‘ Magazine of Natural History,’ and states that lie 
himself found one fragment of a grinder at Bramorton. 
In another note communicated this year to the same journal, he 
, describes the modern formation of conglomerate at Cromer, from 
a specimen containing among other things a metal button, a 
