1821.] Mr. Weaver on Floet % Formations. 405 



what was formerly the New Sidon, and what has become of 

 the Tyre of the West, which covered with her vessels every sea ? 

 Most of the edifices, devoured by a destructive climate, will 

 no longer exist to answer the curiosity of man by the voice of 

 monuments ; but the bridge built by Rennie in the centre of the 

 commercial world, will subsist to tell the most distant genera- 

 tions here was a rich, industrious, and powerful city. The 

 traveller, on beholding this superb monument, will suppose that 

 some great Prince wished, by many years of labour, to conse- 

 crate for ever the glory of his life by this imposing structure. 

 But if tradition instruct the traveller that six years sufficed for 

 the undertaking and finishing of this work ; if he learns that an 

 association of a number of private individuals was rich enough 

 to defray the expense of this colossal monument, worthy of 

 Sesostrises or Caesars, he will admire still more the nation in 

 which similar undertakings could be the fruit of the efforts of a 

 few obscure individuals lost in the crowd of industrious citizens/' 



Mr. Rennie died at his house in Stamford-street on Oct. 4, in 

 the 64th year of his age, after a very short illness ; and his 

 remains were interred on the 16th in St. Paul's Cathedral, near 

 those of Wren, Barry, Milne, Reynolds, and West. 



Among a vast number of distinguished persons who followed 

 Mr. Rennie to the grave, were, Sir Joseph Yorke, Sir Humphry 

 Davy, Sir R. Seppings, Sir G. Cockburn, Sir J. B. Martin, Sir 

 Thomas Lawrance, Mr. Chantrey, Mr. W. T. Brande, and several 

 other gentlemen of rank and high professional abilities. The 

 funeral arrangements were conducted without any affectation of 

 splendour, but extremely handsome and well devised; and in the 

 long train of mourners were many to whom his exertions had 

 been valuable, and many by whom his talents had been admired. 



Article II. 



On Floetz Formations. By Thomas Weaver, Esq. MRIA. 

 MRDS. MWS. MGS. 



(Concluded from p. 359.) 



Floetz. — Series III. 



1 . Upper or Shell Limestone Formation of M. Freiesleben. 



Shell Limestone. Muschel-kalkstein of Werner. 



Lias and Oolite Limestone Formation. 



This formation is also very widely distributed. In Mansfeld, 

 it is commonly disposed in regular horizontal strata, which, 

 sometimes present a smooth even sheet of considerable extent j, 



