654! Meteors on Nov. 13. ISS*. 



so angular a form as to be nearly doubled under each other. 

 Yet between these and the former, and but little above the 

 surface, there are other circular arches, which, instead of 

 being deposited in the same manner as the others, have their 

 diameter horizontal. Farther up, among the recesses of the 

 hills, there are fragments of exotic masses, which have been 

 brought together from various places, and piled one over the 

 other in " most admired disorder." As far, too, as the eye 

 can trace and the rocks are bare, the higher strata, as they 

 recede in perspective, appear to be laid in every irregular 

 position, some depressed, and others elevated, as if various 

 powers had been brought to bear upon them from above and 

 below. 



The most natural conclusion is, that there are, probably, 

 large reservoirs of water on the mountains above, which, at 

 some early period, whether by an extraordinary accumula- 

 tion, or by the recession of the subjacent rocks, were preci- 

 pitated in a flood to the valley, bearing with them the huge 

 masses which lie about in so many rude fragments. But this 

 could not have caused the contortions in the strata which are 

 so remarkable. 



The natural colour of the limestone is a deep indigo, but 

 from meteoric causes the surface has assumed a yellowish and 

 brownish tint, while fragments are strewed about, which have 

 passed through the fire of a kiln at the foot of the fall, of a 

 light gravelly red. At this spot, there is a surprising echo, 

 which is " shown off" by the discharge of a small cannon ; 

 for the employment of which, the traveller is charged a fee 

 which would not be unworthy of the guides who minister in 

 the Devil's Cave, at Castleton, in the Peak. 



The diagrams here given in illustration are not drawn with 

 a view to proportion ; my only object has been illustration. 

 ^W. B.Clarke. 



\_A Postscript to Mr, Clarheh Communication^ ending in 

 p. 630. — The ajpyearing of Meteors in November, in different 

 Years, (p. 386, 387.) An Instance for 1834.] — On the return 

 [in 1834] of the period when the meteors, of which I have 

 said so much, were seen in 1799, 1832, and 1833, I felt 

 naturally anxious to watch the atmosphere. My health, how- 

 ever, did not allow me to remain up all night; but on rising, 

 at three o'clock in the morning of Nov. 13., I saw from my 

 window, in fifteen minutes' time by the watch, fifteen falling 

 stars, in the direction of a line from Leo to the star Miza in 

 Ursa major. The night was cloudless, and the moon so 



