From Adam Sedgwick   11 January 1849

Norwich

11 January 1849

My dear Henslow

I am very much out of spirits in consequence of a broken shin which deprives me of carriage so necessary to my health – I had a fall last Monday, & inflicted several furrows on my face that made it anything but beautiful. It is now however in all its pristine beauty; but my leg bothers me, & will not get well, & I am not permitted across my house. Had M. rs Henslow been able to come she would have made me well in a moment. I do not think your section right. There is no fault like you have drawn to the south of the chalk ridge in the I. of Wight– none, at least, that I could ever discover– your section at any rate is quite wrong – for the upper greensand is packed regularly under the highly inclined chalk – then comes the gault – & then the Shanklin series underlaid by the Weald clay without any fault. These become gradually horizontal in the ridge of S t Catherine on the south coast. What an active fellow Sidney is – and without being profound he is a good bellows blower & keeps the ball going- What an incredible service Brown w d have done, if to his gigantic knowledge he had added Sidney’s physical energy & love of public display. My love to all your womankind

Ever yours | A Sedgwick

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