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The Mendip Hills, extending from the neighbour- 
hood of Frome to the Bristol channel, come next in 
geological age. The prevailing rock is carbonif- 
erous or mountain limestone, resting on the old red 
sand stone, which protrudes through the limestone 
at some of the highest parts ofthe district. Various 
conglomerates and sandstones make up large por- 
tions of this series of rocks. "The limestone contains 
numerous species of molluscous shells, besides corals 
and encrinites.— These hills have undergone mighty 
disturbances, as is exemplified in the stupendous 
Cheddar cliffs, and in the romantic Brockley, 
Goblin, Burrington and other combes. 
The insulated rocks, Steep Holmes and Flat 
Holmes, seem to have been broken off from the 
limestone hills of the Mendip district, and the cor- 
responding carboniferous strata of Wales, at one of 
those sublime movements by which God has been 
pleased to prepare the world as a habitation for the 
widely extending family of man. 
The grand scenery of Cheddar cliffs can hardly 
be surpassed in the kingdom, and the rocky combes 
of Mendip have a romantic beauty, widely different 
from the calm richness of those of Quantock 
and the more western hills. The caverns of Men- 
dip are interesting and wonderful, as the tombs of 
numerous animals, many of which are fortunately 
now extinct.—In that at Uphill, the Rev. D. H. 
Williams of Bleadon found bones of rhinocerus, 
hyzena, bear, ox, horse, stag, fox, and of many small 
