4172 Intelligence and Miscellaneous Articles. 



fached rocks, and vvhicii rest upon the bed, and are also under it in 

 many places. It seems, in fact, that these substances have fallen 

 Upon the bed, and covereu it over after its formation by the sea ; and 

 in time the mass has become so consolidated, as often to present 

 nearly a perpendicular surface to the sea, of from thirty to fifty or 

 sixty feet in height. 



In some parts of the cliff, particularly within the parishes of Budock 

 and Mawnan, the pebbles and gravel have been formed into a con- 

 glomerate, apparently, by the oxides of iron and manganese. The 

 bed may have been produced by a succession of extraordinarily high 

 tides, resulting from some long operating or more temporary cause, 

 at a very remote period. However this may have been, the fact is 

 curious, and seems to be at variance with the notion, that the sea has 

 made considerable encroachments on the coasts of Cornwall. 



If it should be surmised that the land itself might have been ele- 

 vated, it may be remarked, that such an hypothesis is not in accor- 

 dance with the horizontal position of the bed for so considerable a 

 distance, notwithstanding that the cliffs are in many places intersected 

 by valleys. 



INQUIRIES RESPECTING THE DIMENSIONS AND VALUE OF THE 



LOCAL MEASURES IN COMMON USE AT COVENT GARDEN 



MARKET. BY B. BEVAN, ESQ. 



To the Editors of the Phil. Mag. and Journal of Science. 



Sometime last year, 1 inquired through the medium of the Gar- 

 dener's Magazine, (as the most probable channel for the information 

 sought,) the dimensions of the local measures in common use at Co- 

 vent Garden market; at present no one has thought proper to favour 

 the public, through that channel, with a specification of tiiose mea- 

 sures, which are generally unknown to country gardeners, and on 

 that account the relative prices of fruit and vegetables in the coun- 

 try are also unknown. 



The Sieve, being a measure frequently used, its diameter and 

 depth should be specified. 



The HflZ/'-wcw also,— for although it is so denominated, it may 

 not perhaps usually contain half the quantity of a sieve. 



The Punnet should also be defined, by specifying its dimensions, 

 or by naming its proportion to some known measures. 



The Pottle, is a measure already known ; but probably there may 

 be some variation in the local pottle of Covent Garden and the Im- 

 perial pottle. 



There are some other articles sold by the Bunch, which to a coun- 

 tryman is an undefined quantity. If any person would take the 

 trouble to ascertain the weight of these bunches, and favour the 

 public, through the medium of your Magazine, with the informa- 

 tion, it would be acceptable to many in the country. 



The trouble of ascertaining the dimensions of the measures above 

 described, will be very little. 



The gallon and pottle measures, perhaps, may be not quite con- 

 formable to the general Act, in the proportion of their diameters to 

 their depths. Yours, &c. B. Bkvan. 



