254 Mr. Fareys Notes on Mr. Bakewell’s Geology. 
[P. 258] was previously to the year 1800, covered by old and al- 
most ruinous houses, near which, no Well, answering the 
description given by Mr. B. is known. “ Near St. Andrew’s 
Church,” seems indeed, a loose and improper reference to 
Mr. Taylor’s Printing Office, see Mr. B’s p. 862: and no 
where in this neighbourhood could [ hear tidings of any 
such event, as the finding of an elephant’s tusk ; perhaps 
Mr. B. may have met with the relation in some old maga- 
zine or newspaper, which had improperly mentioned a tusk, 
as found in the Clay of a deep Well, instead of 2m, or on the 
gravel, when beginning to sink such a one?. See my Notes 
on pp. 16, 181, &c. 
P, 259, 1. 2, of Yorkshire *.—* P. M. xxxv. p. 130. 
1, 4, Huntingdonshire and Rutlandshiret.— + Mr. B. 
would perform an acceptable piece of service, if he would 
point out the situations and proofs, of Chalk strata being 
“¢ found below the surface,” in either of the above counties. 
I believe the whole to be a mistake, which has often before 
been printed, as remarked in my Report i. 07 Note.—The 
Rev. Mr. Townsend in his ‘* Character of Moses,”’ p. 141, 
mentions chalk at Ridlington, in Rutland, and Stukeley, in 
Hunts.: [ have been through both the Stukeleys in Hunts. 
which are on the great Clunch-clay, (Rep.i. 113) covered 
locally with alluvial clay, flints, small cha/k bolders, &e. : 
and I have passed very near to Ridlington, in Rutland, on 
its S and on its E sides, and the same must be situated, on 
or near to the Northampton Sandstone, (Rep. i. 114): and 
not unlikely, has alluvial chalky Clay patches, such as | 
have noticed in many places in and near Derbyshire, Bep.i. 
308, and of which | saw several instances between Leicester 
and Uppingham. _ It is greatly to be lamented, that Mr. T’s 
work abounds with errors, wherever he attempts to speak 
of the facts of the British strata, beyond his own personal 
observations, and neighbourhood, in the west of England. 
1, 22, Mr. Townsend has given {.—{ In the preface to 
the work here quoted, Mr. T. acknowledges, being unac- 
quainted with ¢he succession or manner of tracing the strata, 
until he learned the same from Mr. William Smith, in 
1801, (they first became acquainted in June 1799, I have 
been told), who before then had completed his Map of 
this part of the country, and had very freely shown the 
same, and communicated his facts to great numbers of per- 
sons, during the six or seven preceding years, Rep. i. 111, 
and P.M. xxxv. p 114 N: in various parts of his work 
Mr. T. refers to Mr. Smith, (sometimes rather erroneously 
with regard to Faults, 1 believe} and here at least, Mr. B. 
might 
