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The best form of limestone for the purpose in question is 

 Mountain Limestone, which " takes its name from the 

 fact that it occurs in various parts of the British Islands, 

 more particularly in that range of hills known as the 

 ' Backbone of England,' running from the Weaver Hills 

 in Staffordshire right to the ' Borders.' It is known as 

 Mountain Limestone, because it forms in many cases not 

 hills but actual mountains Although it forms 



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moimtains in some parts, with much of the rock actually 

 bare, yet its universal characteristic is, that though covered 

 with a very thin, loose, rubbly soil, composed of vegetable 

 mould and small fragments of rock, the pasture on the 

 same is of an exceptionally sweet and nutritive character. 

 . . . . Some special examples of Mountain Limestone 

 farms may be given by way of illustration. For instance, 

 in the neighbourhood of Butterton, in Staffordshire, the 



