142 NOTE — MAMMALIA. 



The extreme points of exposure of (i) are about 176 yds. apart, and 



of (ii) 55 yds. 



No. 10. — Foss Foot Traps. At the base of Thornton Foss, very 

 little below the horizon of No. 9, are several trap-bands, forming a 

 network with thin layers of felspathic ash, one of the ash beds 

 curiously running through a layer of the trap. These appear to be 

 felstones, but are more or less altered. 



No. 11. — The Dale Fault Dyke is about 2 ft. wide, and 8,408 ft. 

 from No. 9. (i) A good exposure in the Dale Fault Gully on the 

 N. Western side of the valley, (ii) Another in the river at the lower 

 end of Seata, where it is considerably contorted. This is a felstone 

 dyke in better condition than No. 4. Constituents : quartz, reaching 

 y 1 ^ in. in size ; mica, black ^ in., white 3V in. ; felspar, pale 3V in. ; 

 hornblende, a little, minute ; pyrites. Extreme points of exposure, 

 400 yds. 



No. 12. — The Seata Falls Dyke. Width, including much altered 

 rock to N.E., 27 ft.; 1,581 ft. of slates and galliards intervene 

 between this trap and No. 11. The exposure, which is not more 

 than 10 yds. in length, is situated at the foot of the Seata rapids. 

 Like Nos. 4 and 11, this felstone trap is much altered, but at one 

 point the original character is apparent ; the band is, perhaps, 

 identical with several of a somewhat similar nature in the N.E. 

 portion of the black cleaved slates of the Lower Silurians, near Norber 

 in Crummach Dale. Constituents : quartz, reaching ~ in. ; mica, 

 A in. broad ; felspar, ^in. ; hornblende, pale greenish ; pyrites. 



NOTE— MAMMALIA. 

 Extracts from Lancashire Churchwardens' Accounts. — The following 

 items, extracted from various parish accounts of the 17th and 18th centuries, may 

 prove of some interest: — 



Rochdale: Churchwarden's Accounts, 1640. 



P d for two Hedghoggs 00 00 o6 d 



The same, 1642. 



P d for 3 Fox heades 00 3 00 



The Accts of Mark Nield, Churchwarden for ye Township of Oldham, 1734. 

 Disburs'd 



for 8 Hedge hogs o 1 4 



The Accts. of James Butterworth, Churchwarden for ye Township of Ryton. 

 Disbursed 



for 8 Hedge hogs o 1 4 



The accounts of Saml Smethurst, Churchwarden for Chaderton, 1735. 

 Disburs'd 



Hedge Hog o 6 2 



The accounts of Miles Greaves, Churchwarden of ye Township of Crompton, 

 for ye year of our Lord 1735. 

 Disbursed 



Hedge Hog 062 



I imagine that in the last two cases the 6 is a misprint for o, in the reprint from 

 which I have taken them, as twopence appears to have been the market value of 

 a Hedgehog about Oldham a century and a half ago.— J. Grafton Milne, 



Albert Square, Bowdon, 13th April, 1889. — 



Naturalist, 



