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farthing of George IV., and the impression of an iron nail. He 
suggests that garden walks might be made by mixing small 
fragments of iron and common salt with gravel. 
Though suffering much from ill health his zeal in prosecuting 
scientific inquiries did not cease. 
On the 8th February, 1837, he writes to the Editor of the 
‘ Norwich Mercury’ about some excavations for the new factory 
belonging to the Norwich Yarn Company, which were on the 
original site of an establishment of the Carmelites or White Friars. 
And on the 1st March, he records in the ‘Norfolk Chronicle’ the 
finding of a Bulla of lead at this locality. 
Writing to him on February 27th, 1837, Dawson Turner says: 
“ I am much obliged to you for your interesting communication to 
which I should now make a return in kind, had I in the enjoy- 
ment of good health, but half the industry and energy which you 
retain under the pressure of sickness.” 
Ho was also busy at this time with the preparation of a 
“ Theoretical View of the Geology of the Norfolk Coast,” a MS. 
work which under this title is indexed in the catalogue he made 
of his books and fossils in 1S37. 
On the 3rd March he sends to Mr. Turner drawings of six 
corbels lately removed from the parish church of llellesdon, “ to 
improve its appearance,” as lie sarcastically remarked. These he 
stated much resembled the dramatic masks of Terence. 
One memento of the respect in which he was held at the bank, 
may here be given in the following letter addressed to him : — 
“ Bank 
“ 6 mo. / 24 1837. 
“Esteemed Friend, 
“ I enclose and £50 which my partners 
kindly unite with me in presenting to thee as a token of our 
regard and sympathy, under the circumstances of thy trying 
illness 
“ I am thy sincere friend 
“J. J. GURNEY.” 
Of the several works he had in hand at this time he lived to 
complete none. Death removed him on the 14th January, 1838, 
and he was buried in the churchyard of St. Stephen’s, where on 
