Mr. Farey’s Observations on Mr. Bakewell’s Mop. $7 
it is rather materially incorrect in two or three places: viz. to 
the north and north-east of York, the Oalite Limestone, § 
distinctly described in your xxxixth vol, pages 97 and 98, 
is omitted in the ow district,” a name of his, which cere 
tainly ill befits this elevated Limestone tract. Mr. B’s Alpine 
or ** Devonian Range” of Primitive and Transition Rocks, 
has been carried a great many miles too far to the north-east, 
on the shore of the Bristol channel, as Mr. B. might have 
Jearnt, from Mr. f/m. Smith’s Report on the Nailsea Coale 
field, &e. iti your xxxviiith vol: p. 32! 3 had not this Gen- 
tleman, and his pursuits, been denied all mention or even 
allusion, in this work, containing so much * Original infor- 
mation’’ (page xi), and whose arrangement of particulars on 
the Geology of England, had not ‘“been before noticed” 
(p..13). 
Mr. B. seems not aware, that the Chalk extends, on and 
near to the south Coast, considerably to the west of bis ** low 
district,” and that the large tract called Blackdown, is co- 
vered by Sand, &c. from under the Chalk, very different 
from any thing in his ** middle district,” as he might have 
gathered from Mr. James Sowerby’s « Mineral Conchology,” 
pages 4', 57, 58, 60, &c. The inhabitants of Exeter and 
all its vicinity, would doubtless be much obliged to Mr. B., 
if he could find there, the characteristic minerals of his 
«middle district,” viz. **coal*, ironstone, and rock-salt,”” 
(p. 274 and 11). 
The Flintshire Cocd-field on the SW shore of the Dee 
is not shown, although mentioned, p- 295, nor that of An- 
glesea (alluded to p. 275 note,) of whose situation (on the 
Cetni River) he might have learned something, from Mr, 
Aikin’s Tour, p. 132, and Mr. Parkinson’s Ory. Rem. i. 178, 
In Mr. B’s “ northern Alpine range,”’ some of the small 
Coal Basins or Swilleys occur, which I have mentioned in 
your xxxixth vol. p. 30 Note, and had I time, I could I think 
mention several Collieries in different and more central 
parts, of this primitive and transition tract of Mr. B. 
Mr. B asserts, p. 264, that ‘*no metallic veins” are found 
east of his line C C C, in any part of England. 
254 and 270 and 407 of the Deiby Rep. vol. 1. | have men- 
tioned iwo contrary instances, another is mentioned in your 
At pages 
* The Wood. Coal of Bovey, occurring, 
**in alluvial ground,” p 141, “separated by strata of clay and gravel,” p. 159, 
underlaid (as | have heard) by alluvial sand and gravel, on a district of 
coarse Sia/e, has vo pre*ensions to rank with the regular Coal-fields of the 
“middle district,” wherein slate has no place, being a “ Transition” Rock, 
p- 58. Phe Coal of Portland Isle and Kimeridge, seem to have better claims 
to be placed in the middle disiriet, than that of Bovey has, 
as is very usual with this substance, 
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