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the class of exceptions already noticed.* That dis- 

 turbance -vvas general, is supported by the further and 

 important fact of the destruction of many forms of 

 organic being previously flourishing, particularly of the 

 vegetable kingdom. 



* " Some of tlie most considerable dislocalions of the border of llie 

 coal fields of Coalbrookdale and Dudley happened after the deposition 

 of a part of the new red sandstone ; but it is certain that those of 

 Somersetshire and Gloucestershire were completed before the date of 

 that rock." — Phillips. 



