. The jottings of some geological, archaeological, botanical, ornithological and zoological rambles around Macclesfield. ch a manner not noticeable elsewhere ;and specimens of the local drift extending a few milesround Macclesfield, viz., rough pieces of the millstonegrit, chiefly the first, third, fourth, and fifth beds ; alsothose of the Yoredale rocks, all from the adjacent hillslying eastward. The millstone grit and Yoredale rocksobtain a thickness of about 3,000 feet in this specimens of the lower coal-measure sand-stones, some containing fossil plants, viz., sigillaria,
. The jottings of some geological, archaeological, botanical, ornithological and zoological rambles around Macclesfield. ch a manner not noticeable elsewhere ;and specimens of the local drift extending a few milesround Macclesfield, viz., rough pieces of the millstonegrit, chiefly the first, third, fourth, and fifth beds ; alsothose of the Yoredale rocks, all from the adjacent hillslying eastward. The millstone grit and Yoredale rocksobtain a thickness of about 3,000 feet in this specimens of the lower coal-measure sand-stones, some containing fossil plants, viz., sigillaria,stigmaria, calamites, conifers, &c. ; also detached pieces ofcoal, and blocks of ganister sandstone, with impressions ofstigmaria and reedlike plants, and lumps of fireclaystudded with fossils. From the mountain limestone north-wards, specimens of it generally in a nodular form, of allsizes, well waterAvorn, and very plentiful. Likewise roughpieces of the same, composed entirely of encrinital stems ;also lumps of madrepore, corallines, and a few turbinoliafungites. In the lower part of the Cemetery valley, near. >f
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