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east of Bridport. Further information about the distribution of 

 the Lias would, I venture to think, be useful to agriculturists and 

 landowners. The celebrated Stilton Cheese, as well as " Double 

 Gloucester " and Cheddar, are manufactured in other counties out 

 of the Lower Lias clay ; while the Middle Lias beds elsewhere 

 furnish many valuable economic products, from the Middlesborough 

 iron ore to the apple trees of Rutland i.e., redland. Our present 

 map is antiquated, besides being on too small a scale, and the time 

 is coming when the Geological Survey will really be in want of 

 another job. If the Dorset Field Club leads the way, and our 

 County Council supports the petition, such a combination of local 

 influence would prove irresistible, and we should speedily have 

 a map worthy of the County^ 



