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Miscellanies. 395 
In the early part of last June, there were discovered in the Store- 
ton quarries, on the under surface of several large slabs of sandstone, 
highly relieved casts of what the workmen believed to have been hu- 
man hands; and the circumstance having been made known to the 
Natural History Society of Liverpool, a committee was appointed, 
who drew up the report communicated to this Society. 
The peninsula of Wirral consists of new red sandstone; and to- 
wards the northern extremity, the formation may be separated into 
three principal divisions. The lowest is composed of beds, slightly 
inclined towards the east, of red or variegated sandstone, occasional- 
ly abounding with pebbles partly derived from the coal-measures ; and 
in the bottom strata‘either angular or little water-worn. Seams of 
marl are very rare in this division, the argillaceous matter being con- 
fined to nodules or concretions of clay of the same color as the sand- 
stone. 
The middle division consists of white or yellow sandstone, in some 
places argillaceous, and frequently containing round concretions of 
clay, and pebbles. The strata are separated by seams of white or 
mottled ve anit almost imperceptible, but sometimes seve- 
ral inches t 
The siietaael division is formed of red or vate gated sandstone, 
inclosing also nodules of clay and pebbles of quartz; and it abounds 
With strata of red marl. 
The Storeton quarries are situated in the middle division; and the 
casts which have hitherto been noticed, occurred on the under sur- 
face of three beds of sandstone, about two feet thick each. 
Strata incline 8° to the northeast, but they are traversed by several 
faults, which range in the strike of the beds. The authors of the re-_ 
port are of opinion, that each of the thin seams of clay in which the 
sandstone casts were moulded, formed successively a dry surface, 
Over which the Chirotherium and other animals walked, leaving im- 
pressions of their footsteps; and that each layer was submerged by a 
depression of the surface. The lowest seam of clay was so thin, that 
the marks penetrated into the subjacent sandstone. The following 
account is then given of a hind foot and a fore foot, selected from 
slabs in the Museum of the Royal Institution, Liverpool. 
Hind Foot, consisting of five digits; one of which, from its resem- 
blance to a human thumb, has been generally distinguished by that 
designation. 
Total length from the root of the ihe to the tig of the se- 
cond toe 
Extreme brandi tis the point ‘ot the thumb to ‘the point of the 
fourth toe . . : 
Inches. 
