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ferns in nodular ironstone. There will be fossils in the 

 middle and lower coal measures of the Biddulph coalfield 

 characteristic of them. On Congleton Edge aviculapecten 

 and goniatites between the two grits, and about a dozen 

 species of fossil shells have been found in the Yoredale 

 rocks. 



Probably it will be of interest to enumerate the heights 

 in feet above the level of the sea of some of the chief 

 points about here. Cloud Hill, third grit, 1,190 ; Mow 

 Cop, first grit, 1,100 ; Roches, near Leek, third grit, 1,580 ; 

 Shutlingslow, first grit, 1,718 ; Cat and Fiddle, first grit, 

 1,780 ; Axedge, 1,809 ; Tegsnose, third grit, 1,300 ; North- 

 ern Nancy, Kerridge, lower coal measures, 930 ; Eddisbury 

 Hill, lower coal measures, 1,000 ; the Gun and Bosley 

 Minn, both of the Yoredale series, 1,200 feet ; Alderley 

 Edge, new red sandstone, 650 feet. 



