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the sand the Arab can determine whether it was heavily 

 or lightly laden, and whether it was lame." * Storeton is 

 specially interesting in the history of geology, as being 

 the place where attention was first attracted to the ripple- 

 marked and rain-impressed sandstones that were sea- 

 shores in primeval ages. Quite a new light was thrown 

 upon remote antiquity by the observation of their sin- 

 gular records, which showed that sunshine, the clouds, 

 and the ocean operated, just as they do now, at periods 

 incalculably distant. 



The appellations of the animal that walked about 

 where Lymm now stands, signify respectively, " the 

 beast with a hand," on account of the remarkable re- 

 semblance of the footprints to the figure of a large 

 hand with a thick woollen glove upon it ; and " the 

 creature with teeth of labyrinthine structure." Complain 

 not, ye idlers, of the "hard names" given by botanists 

 to plants. They are equalled by those of geology and 

 every other science, and if they really be so hard, try 

 then to learn the English names. This will show that 

 the complaint is not a mere excuse for indifference to 

 both. 



The village of Lymm is of considerable antiquity, being ) 

 like Thelwall, of Saxon foundation. Near the centre 

 are the remains of an ancient cross, the lower steps of 

 which are cut out of the solid rock ; and close by, upon 

 an eminence, is Lymm Hall, an ancient building of stone 

 Bridgewater Treatise, i 262. 



