Petty : Newts in Ciimhcrland , 170^. 267 



of many found in the Bradford area. Each of the five public 

 parks possesses an example. The most recent discovery of 

 this kind forms the subject of the illustration, and was laid bare 

 in excavating for an extension of the Rawson Place Provision 

 Market, vi^hich is in the heart of Bradford. The specimen was 

 photog-raphed in situ, but has since been removed to Peel Park, 

 Bradford. The uprig"ht trunk, as usual, had been denuded. 

 The diameter of the portion of the trunk remaining is about 

 two feet. The largest root is 15 ft. 6 in. long, another is 

 13 ft. 4 in., and there are two forks of smaller dimensions. The 

 thickness of the two roots nearest the trunk is i ft. 5 in. and 

 I ft. 3 in. respectively, the other roots falling away to 9 inches, 

 7 inches, and less. 



The fossil was found at a depth of 16 feet, and occurred 

 under about 8 feet of impure sandstone. It rested upon the 

 well-known Elland flagstone. The exigencies of the situation 

 prevented the ramifications of the roots being followed on the 

 north side. 



On the lower floor (upon which the gentleman in the illustra- 

 tion is standing) were well-defined ripple marks. 



Within two hundred yards of this place, no fewer than seven 

 similar fossil trees were found a few years ago, the stumps 

 varying in size from i ft. 6 in. to 2 ft. 6 in. in diameter. 



AMPHIBIA. 



Newts in Cumberland, 1705. — I have no proof that the 

 words in italics below really represent newts, but as in 1705 it 

 is probable that the bait employed would be either minnows or 

 other small fry or worms, which newts readily take, I give the 

 record here as for newts. 



A question in ' Notes and Queries ' was answered by Lord 

 Aldenham by a suggestion that the words were a mis-reading 

 of water-evett, which, in his lordship's early schoolboy days in 

 Somersetshire, was used for the 'water-lizard' ('Notes and 

 Queries, 6th June 1903, p. 451). 



Bishop Nicholson writes in his diary: — 'June 18 (1705)^ 

 Munday. — Early to meet Mr. Gibbon at W. Gasgarth's : 

 whence we went to Threlkeld Tarn, to fish (as it prov'd) for 

 nothing but Water-E?nmets, no fish being ever known to live in 

 y' cold Lake.' Nicholson's Diaries IIL, Trans. Cutnb. and Westm. 

 Antiq. and Archeol. Soc, N.S. III., p. 14 (1903). — S. L. Petty, 

 Ulverston, 6th June 1903. 



1903 July I. 



