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Mr. Sheffield discovered molybdina in the same neighbourhood ; 
and I found a very well defined specimen of wolfram on quartz 
‘in the bed of the river Calduo. 
The coal-formation of Whitehaven is covered at St. Bees 
Head by a curious bituminous clay, formed, as it were, of a 
number of hollow cones inserted into each other, till a column is 
formed whose length (about a foot) is equal to the thickness of 
the stratum, and by the lateral aggregation of these columns the 
whole bed is formed: over this is a limestone containing mag- 
nesia and iron, and exactly resembling some of the dark-co- 
loured more compact beds at Whitby. Above this is a red 
sandstone, connected with which is clay, marl, and gypsum. Thus 
a beautiful uniformity exists on the two sides of the island; for 
if we suppose the limestone, &c. of the neighbourhood of Cocker- 
mouth to accord with the metalliferous rocks of Alston Moor, 
the Whitehaven coal-formation with that of Neweastle, the 
magnesian limestone of St. Bees with the Sunderland limestone, 
and the red sandstone with that of the 'Tees,—we have the series 
complete. Notwithstanding the opinion of Professor Kidd, that 
our rocks are ina state of absolute confusion, I think I could 
show that our rocks, though numerous and occurring in small” 
compass, are remarkably regular in their relations: but it would 
be leading me too far from the object of this paper, which is 
merely intended as a notice of some rocks which have lately 
fallen under my observation. 
XI. Specimen of a new Nomenclature for Meteorological — 
Science. By Tuomas Forsrer, Esq. 
To Mr. Tilloch. 
r 
Sir, — Dur propensity which the English writers have to bor- 
row from other languages terms used technically in the sciences, 
renders their works so very difficult to be understood by those 
who do not understand the languages from which the words are 
derived. Besides which, their habit of borrowing words has a 
tendency to obliterate the distinctive characters of different 
tongues, and has already made the English a motley and unphi- 
losophical group of exotic words, which one might well suppose 
had sprung from the confusion of Babel. It is my intention to 
construct a scientific nomenclature (entirely out of our own lan- 
guage, or its mother-tongue the Saxon), and to adopt it in 
my journals of meteorology. 1 subjoin at present only a few 
technical names, which I shall henceforward use, and which 1 
_ have already made, partly from the consideration above alluded 
to, and partly from having been repeatedly desired by ane 
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