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part of the country. By the kindness of this gentleman I was fur- 

 nished with such specimens as served to shew me, that as in the Der- 

 byshire, so in this marble, the remains of any other part of the ani- 

 mal, except of the vertebral column, are exceedingly rare : indeed I 

 was unable to discover the least trace of either the superior or infe- 

 rior extremities in any of the specimens which came under my obser- 

 vation. With respect to the situations, in which the marble, with 

 .which he favoured me existed, Mr. Inman gave me the following in- 

 formation : 



" These specimens were obtained from a place called Garsdale, 

 situated in the north-west part of the West Riding of the county of 

 Yorkshire, on the confines of Westmoreland. It is a deep and nar- 

 row dell or dale, about seven miles in length, running due east and 

 west, having no level ground, except a few fields at the foot of two 

 exceedingly high mountains, which form its sides. This level, accord- 

 ing to all appearances, consists of the various substances which 

 have been washed by the rain from the top and sides of the adjoining 

 mountains, and now form some of the richest pasture-ground in the 

 kingdom. The specimens were taken from a quarry, lately disco- 

 vered to be fine rich marble, about half way up the side of Bafell, or 

 Bowfell, (being something like a bow in appearance on one of its sides) ; 

 one of the mountains forming Garsdale, and one of the highest and 

 grandest in the north of England, being, in my opinion, as high, if 

 not higher, than Skiddaw, and much grander in appearance. It is at 

 its foot, I should think, full thirty miles in circumference ; and its top 

 (except in very clear weather) is mostly enveloped in the clouds. The 

 highest parts cannot at any time be seen from the vallies which sur- 

 round it ; to see its highest elevation will require nearly two hours of 

 persevering labour, in ascending its rugged side. The prospect from 

 one point of the top of this mountain is very extensive, as the sea 

 may be seen from it on a clear day, over about thirty miles of moun- 

 tainous country in Westmoreland. Some parts of the top consist 



