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and adjoining Parts of the Continent. 



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Old Ecd Sandstone of Werner^ Rothe 

 Todte Liegende. 



Base of Thuringerwald. 



Schwanden, in Glarus. 

 Lugano, in Italy. 



Red Porphyry of Botzeti, in Tyroly and 

 of Chemnitz^ in Saxony. 



This porphyry is associated with the New Conglomerate. 



New Red Conglomerate. 



Exeter encircling the base of Quantoc and 

 Mendip Hills. 



New Red Porphyry of Teignmouth, An 

 trim, and Kinross, 



English €oal Measures, Newcastle^ Der- 

 byshire, Staffordshire, and South Wales. 



Mountain, or Carboniferous Limestone. 



Derbyshire, Alston Moor, Mendip, South 

 Wales, subordinate in the Great Coal 

 Formation usually found in its lowest 

 regions. 



Old Red Sandstone. 



In its upper members composed of loose 

 beds of red sandstone, red marl, and 

 conglomerate. 



In its lower regions passing insensibly 

 into compact greywacke; abundant 

 along the frontier of England and 

 Wales. 



Independent Coal Formation of IVerntr.. 



None in the Alps, or basin of Po. 



Potschapel, near Dresden. 



Friedland, in Silesia, and near Tarnovit2.^ 



in Silesia. 

 Namur, Saarre Brooke, St. Etvenne in 



France. 



Transition Lime of Werner, and of OmOfi 

 lius d'Holloy. 



Banks of the Meuse from Namur to 

 Liege; is of rare occurrence on the Con. 

 tinent. 



Variety of Greywacke of Werner. 



Seldom appearing on the Continent- 

 Occurs at Huy on the Meuse below 

 Namvir, where it lies under the mounr. 

 tain limestone. 



The Vallorsine puddingstone is nearly of 

 this age, but a little older. 



TRANSITION 

 Tramilion Limestone. 



Beds of limestone occurring subordinately 

 in Uie Upper Region of the Greywacke 

 Formation, Dudley, Wenlock-Edge, 

 Ludlow, Longhope, Llandilo. 



Greywacke. 



Passing into fine greywacke slate at one 

 extremity, and into conglomerate at the 

 other. 



Mountains of North Wales. 



Slate quarries of Penryn. 



Slate of Tintagel, in Cornwall, and top 

 of Snowdon, in Wales, contaming 

 marine shells (Terebra tulites ?) 



Slate of Llandrindod, near Builth, con- 

 taining trilobites. 



Conglomerate of Killamey and St. David's. 



New Series, vol. i. 2 



FORMATION. 



Transition Limestone occur n subordinately 

 in Greytvacke, 



Thin beds of it at Coblentz on the Rhine, 

 In Bohemia near Prague. 



Tarantaise, in Savoy. 

 Banks of Rhine below Coire in Swise 

 S of Werfen in Saltzburg. 



Greywacke. 

 Same as in England. 



Abundant on the Continent. 

 Tarentaise, in Savoy. 

 Matt, in Glarus. 



Slate of Blattenburg, in Glarus conti ning 

 fish and tortoises. 



Slate of Angers, in France, containing^ 



trilobites. 

 Conglomerate of Vallorsine. 



