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two points, however, to which I projDose to direct attention, 

 withoiit further delay, in the following notes : — 



Emborrow. 



South of Emborrow, near Lechmere Water, one can, on the 

 Geological Survey map, cover with the end of a cedar pencil 

 Old Red Sandstone, Lower Transition Beds (Lower Lime- 

 stone Shales), Mountain Limestone, Millstone Grit, and 

 Coal-measures. A fault is indicated between the Old Red 

 and Lower Transition Beds on the one hand, and the Mill- 

 stone Grit and Coal-measures on the other. But even when 

 the fault is taken into consideration, it is difficult to see 

 how samples of all . these Palaeozoic beds come to be huddled 

 together around Lechmere Water. 



In the Survey Memoir we read : — 



" South of Emborrow a small tract of rather complicated 

 ground occurs, and it will be best to consider here all the 

 rocks embraced in it. South-east of the church black coaly 

 shales have been dug up, apparently an old shaft having 

 been sunk. At Lechmere Water we find an adit level driven 

 into the hill towards the church. Commenced in the Lower 

 Limestone Shales, it is continued into the Old Red Sandstone, 

 showing the passage between the two. Old Red Sandstone 

 is seen by the cottage on the south side of the water. These 

 beds must be faulted against the Coal-measures. To the 

 south-east, on the northern side of the ravine, Millstone Grit 

 occurs, and it stretches probably to Emborrow Church, where 

 it is concealed by the Lias chert. . . . The trace of 

 Coal-measures w^hich is exposed no doubt comes out conform- 

 ably above the Millstone Grit, which again overlies the 

 Carboniferous Limestone. These beds are faulted against 

 the Old Red Sandstone and Lower Limestone Shales " 

 (p. 16). 



