122 Mr. Farey’s Notes on Mr. Bakewelt’s Geology. 
P.186, 1. 2 and 3, partial formations*.—* There seem na 
grounds for stating Chalk to be a partial formation, and 
very little, except the modern whims respecting fresh-water 
Lakes and Shells, for saying the same of any of its super- 
incumbent strata, if the renbedded masses belonging to 
them, are properly distinguished, see my Notes on pages 
168, 177, 182, &c.: Gravel, Mr. B. will remember, is al- 
ways partial in its formation or distribution, and always up- 
permost. - 
187, |. 15, which protect them *.—* If vegetable soz] was less 
liable to be acted on, and displaced by the elements than 
hard rocks, we might be more disposed to admit, that ** the 
loftiest eminences” are by this means protected from being 
levelled ;—where ever did a whole mountain suddenly fall 
down ?, such are common-place, yet very unphilosophical 
assertions. 
188, 1. 5, deep ravines*.—* These and gullies, formed “ in 
the sides’ of mountains, are no proof that their tops are 
lowering or degrading, sensibly, by the action of the ele- 
ments, any more than large blocks found at the foot of a 
mountain, prove the same thing; since such blocks will in 
general be found, on examination, either to have fallen from 
some cliff or steep place, near at hand, or to have been 
moved from some distant stratum; or, if much rounded, 
perhaps from the antipodes, as likely so, as from the top of 
any adjoining mountain, (as seems here assumed), and often, 
far more likely [ think, when the completely different nature 
of the rounded blocks and the adjacent strata, is taken 
into the account. 
I. 19 and 20, blocks of white quartz lie+.—+ If the vio- 
lence of the waves of the Atlantic ocean, acting on the rocks 
and shores of the west of Scotland, is unable to throw 
down the veins of Basalt, which there stand up like “ im- 
mense walls of.stone,” when the surrounding rocks are de- 
composed and torn away, p. 210; how has it happened, 
that harder and more compact veins, of White quartz, inter- 
secting slate, on Beacon and other hills, in Charnwood 
Worest, are found levelled, and that blocks of it “ lie upon 
their summits ?:”? and how, if quartz veins were in any de- 
gree as numerous in these Rocks, as for a moment to be 
supposed, to have furnished the millions of rounded ‘ white 
quartz pebbles spread over the midland counties,” has it 
happened, that dykes ef quartz, nowhere appear above the 
surface in all this forest? ; but on the contrary, that a 
smooth surface of Red Marl prevails, over all except a com- 
paratively small part, occupied by Slate or Sienite peas i 
cliffs 
