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them a separate deposit, equally meriting attention ; 

 while, if sometimes said not to be ascertained in our 

 own country, others associate it with the lias. Being 

 above the red marl, it is sufficiently distinguished 

 from the magnesian limestone ; and being separated 

 from the lias and oolithe by the quadersandstein, it 

 / must also be distinguished from these, if this arena- 

 ceous deposit merits a distinction. If English geo- 

 logists have thus disputed respecting it, it is a conse- 

 quence of that patriotism of geology which desires to 

 reduce every country to the favoured model, as all 

 opinions must conform to that of Self. Philosophical 

 Geology, unable as yet to reconcile German Self and 

 English Self, must submit to suspense till other 

 countries have also advanced their respective strata, 

 and respective claims to dictate ; but it may, in the 

 mean time, note these two deposits, in confirmation 

 of what was formerly said respecting the imaginary 

 wide identity of series among rocks. . 



This limestone occurs in the Alps and the North 

 of Germany, where it is often much inclined; the 

 strata being nearly vertical in the Zimmersberg. It 

 is found near Berchtolsgaden, in the chain of the 

 Gollinger Alp, in the Durrenberg, in the hills about 

 the Konigsee, and in the Tyrol near Hall. At Ebe- 

 nau, where the red marl is wanting, it reposes on the 

 magnesian limestone ; exhibiting sections from 1000 

 to 2000 feet in depth : and, in most parts of the Ger- 

 man Alps, it is covered by the green sand and chalk 

 only. As it occurs also on the boundary of Styria, in 

 the Carpathian mountains, in Hungary, and in Croatia, 

 there can be no reason for refusing it the conspi- 

 cuous place assigned to it among the secondary lime- 

 stones. 



It is generally granular, of a fine texture, and, more 



