364 Mr. Farey’s Notes on Mr. Bakewell’s Geology, 
P. 135. abandoned, on two different accounts, as I have 
‘heard; viz. the vast quantity of water they met 
with, and the certainty almost which appeared, 
that if the pumping bere was continued and the 
Pit deepened, that the important hot Springs at 
Bath, would be diverted thereby, and cease to 
flow ! 
On the well ascertained fact, that Coal-measures _ 
do frequently, if not constantly in England, occur 
beneath the upper or marley Red of Mr. Mushet, 
P.M. xl. p.53, at no vast distance below the 
Lias strata, a scheme has lately been entered on, 
under Mr. Sniith’s direction, to search for Coals 
under the Red Marl, at Compton-dunden N of 
Somerton, which if attended with success, can- 
not fail of proving highly beneficial to all that 
part of England. 
138, 1. 24, strata of Marl *,—*These Polish Marls, hold- 
ing organic remains, are probably those of the 
Paris strata, and not the Cheshire’; for though we 
were untold, whether springs or beds of Salt any- 
where appeared in the basin of Paris? (as it has 
improperly been called, and said to have been the 
receptacle of fresh water Lakes) P. M. xxxv. 
p- 134.N; yet M. De Luc in his first Travels on 
the Continent (just published) vol. 1. p. 328, 
mentions two mounts of strata near Lunenburg, 
in a vast plain of sandy alluvia, with flints, one 
composed of Chalk and the other of Gypsum, the 
Jatter accompanied by a Spring, which supplies 
the Salt-works there ! 
In p. 269, M. De Luc mentions another emi- 
nence of Chalk in a very distant part of this same 
alluvial flinty plain, near Aix-la-Chapelle: both 
of which appear to me, to be lifted pieces of the 
Chalk Strata, like that at Windsor, whereon this 
truly veteran Geologist now lives, and not merely 
hummocks, or parts remaining, of the ¢* dissolved 
strata of chalk,”’ as is constantly assumed in his 
account of this vast plain, in the present two 
volumes, and in that published in 1810, which is 
reviewed in your xxxvith volume, and this sub- 
ject noticed at page 50. 
These raised pieces of Chalk and Paris-Gypsum, 
&c. in Germany, give greater probability, 1o my 
supposition, of the Chalk strata underlieing _ 
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