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fordshire, where it is called the breeding-stone. 



B It e o e ne^ Tnis is also the case at St - Albans (which, with 

 its vicinity as far as Market Street cm the north, 

 may be regarded as the chosen district of the 

 most beautiful Kollanite) ; the name arising 

 from the common idea that this stone breeds, or 

 produces successive pebbles. The breeding- 

 stone must, however, be distinguished from the 

 mother-stone, of the same county; which is an 

 iron-stone, with pebbles of quartz, deposited in 

 layers above the chalk; and sometimes approach- 

 ing the surface, renders whole fields barren. Dr. 

 Woodward also says, that at Aldenham, near 

 Watford, Hertfordshire, this substance, there 

 called pudding-stone, is very frequent ; and some 

 masses weigh near a ton; nay, he mentions a 

 mass of three tons, at Corner Hall, near Berk- 

 hamstead ; and that labourers about St. Albans 

 speak of masses of a similar size*. 



sites. From personal inquiries and observations, it 



appears that the fairest pudding-stone is chiefly 

 found at the ancient and venerable town of St. 

 Albans, where masses often occur in the pave- 

 ment; and its northern environs, as far as Mar- 

 ket Street, where it also forms a great part of the 



* Sites ef little consequence, or erroneous, appear to be Tw 

 Waters, West Wycombe, the county of Berks, &c. 



