#54 Mr. Farey’s Notes on Mr. Bakewell’s Geology. 
P.45. 
hinted to me by a friend, that Mr. B. has somé> 
thing yet to learn, of his friends the ‘ Anglo- 
Germans,” respecting the orthodox interpretation 
of these terms. J have never yet found them ne- 
cessary, in describing any appearances of Nature; 
Mr. B’s 2d figure in plate f. has nothing repre- 
sented in it, to me inconsistent, with regular strati- 
fication; which does not absolutely require parallel, 
but rather continuous masses (Rep. i..105 and 117); 
what have we bere, to prevent us supposing, that 
his upper or ** superincumbent” masses are parts 
of a stratum, as uniformly thick, and as regularly 
applied upon No. i, as that is upon No. 2? (and 
even had once others such upon it,) and that since, 
or even before a part of this mass was cracked 
into regular columnis (see p. 314), the surface was 
denndated, as irregularly as at dd, and that in two 
other parts, the whole of the upper stratum (or 
strata) was stripped off, without any perceptible 
excavation into the next inferior stratum. Such 
cases are very familiar to me in nature. Not so 
I must confess, the three sirata, No. 6, in fig. 1 
in this plate, which abut or end against another 
stratum ; or the two other strata at the top Jeft- 
hand corner of fig. 3 in plate ITI.* 
If in both these cases, alluvial beds (Rep. 1. 142) 
are intended to be shown, covering s/rata, almost 
every Gravel Pit will prove the possibility and the 
frequency of such occurrences, and so will Gravel 
Rocks (Rep. i. 131 Note). 
The different cases of stratula, curved or straight 
(which last are very common in the beds of nu- 
merous Coal-measure and other Rocks), appeared 
to me sufficient, to account for every case that I , 
have yet seen, of unconformable stratification. 
1.17, any conformity +.—t In its top: see above. 
46, 1. 19, and structure *.— * Because compact, and not 
usually divided into beds and blocks, or posts, as 
is common with most other Rocks. 
1,25, almost peculiar *,—* I have yet seen nothing 
so peculiar in the stratification of Basaltic Rocks, 
P. M. xxxili. p. 257, and Rep. i. 279+ their swb- 
* My worthy Friend S. C. Pole, Esq. to whom this Quarry at Wild Park 
belonged, died lately: I shall therefore ‘take it a favour of any one, fo 
whom it may be convenient, to compare the view in this plate with the face 
of the Rock, if they will inform me particularly, as to the two horizontal 
strata at the top left-hand corner. 
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