. The jottings of some geological, archaeological, botanical, ornithological and zoological rambles around Macclesfield. of shell-marl and peat, and the more perfect preservation of theirorganic remains. These remains range from the time ofthe mammoth, great Irish deer, and species of ox andhorse, &c., that have been long extinct; also objects ofhuman art, as stone battle-axes, flint arrow-heads, andquerns. There is no county in England that possessesso many meres or lakes as Cheshire. Between Chesterand Macclesfield on the west and east; and betweenBowden and Wrenbury on the north and south,
. The jottings of some geological, archaeological, botanical, ornithological and zoological rambles around Macclesfield. of shell-marl and peat, and the more perfect preservation of theirorganic remains. These remains range from the time ofthe mammoth, great Irish deer, and species of ox andhorse, &c., that have been long extinct; also objects ofhuman art, as stone battle-axes, flint arrow-heads, andquerns. There is no county in England that possessesso many meres or lakes as Cheshire. Between Chesterand Macclesfield on the west and east; and betweenBowden and Wrenbury on the north and south, there are36 sheets of water, of which Combermere, with an areaof 132 statute acres, is the largest. Formerly there wereseveral others which had been drained. Rostherne Mereoccupies 115 acres, and is 100 feet in depth. Some of themeres and pools of the county are hollows that havebeen left on the sea-bottom-surfaces of the drift, othersare the result of drift—barriers closing up an ordinarywater-shed valley. In the salt district, a few have beenformed by a subsidence of the strata from the abstractionof \ 69 Behind Mount Pleasant, Prestbury Road, there is tobe seen a tumulus, which when explored a few years since,yielded a neolithic or later-stone age burial. At the footof this mound westward, there are the remains of a peatbog; and an oblong block of greenstone,, weighing 25pounds, was taken out of it, that had been used by theancient Britons as a hand-grain rubber or trituratingstone. It is broadly beveled towards the edges all round,eleven inches in length, nine and a half in breadth, andsix in thickness along the central ridges. The followingis the result of an exploration of this barrow. Upon anoblong mound of the drift, 30 yards in diameter at the base,and 25 feet in height, 15 feet in thickness of earth had beenadded, to form a barrow. After clearing off thesurface soil, a depth of 18 inches of sand and gravelwas removed. Below this, came alternate layers of san
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