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Key to the Vowels. 

 Short. Long. 



Ph. Digr. Phys. Digr. 



— ■ — a, Ital. and Germ, short a. zz aa, a in " father." 



ZZ ae, English short a. ZZ aae, Provincial English. 



ea, English short e. ZZ ee3, ea in " bear." 



ZZ e, French e. zz ee, English ay, French ee. 



is, English short i. zzz Us, the long sound of ZZ 



i, French short i. ZZ M> Engl, ee, Fr. i, Germ. ie. 



~ H 3, Engl.&Dutchw,Sanscr.a. Zr 33, the long sound of ZZ 



v oe, Fr. eu, Ger. oe or 6 short. Z> ooe, Fr. eu, Germ, oe or 6 long. 



~ r ~ eo, French mute e. ZZ eeo, the long sound of ZZ 



ZZ oA, Gaelic ao in " laogh." <Z °°h, the long sound of _i_ 



~ eA, Polish y short. HZ eeA, the long sound of ZZ 



ZZ ih, Welsh y (tongue between EZ iih, Welsh y long. 



[teeth) _ 

 t uh, Swedish u short. < uuh, Swedish u long. 



ZZ ue, Sc. ui, Ger. we or ii, Sw. y SZ wwe> German ue or & long. 



zz: «3, French a short. — acta, French d. 



ZZ ao, English o short. ;__ aao, English a in " water." 



ZZ 03, Italian o aperto, short. ZZ oos, Ital. o aperto, long. 



ZZ o, English o in "omit." ZZ oo, Engl, long o, Gr. w. 



ZZ wa, Ital. o chiuso, Sw. o short Z_ um, Ital. o chiuso, Sw. o lon°\ 



:zz w, Engl. oo short; Germ. &c. zz uu. Engl, oo long, Germ u\. 

 u short. 



November 9, 1857. 



Professor Sedgwick gave a description of a series of dislocations 

 which have moved the Cambrian and Silurian rocks between Leven 

 Sands and Duddon Sands, several miles out of their normal posi- 

 tion in the Geological Map of the Lake Mountains. 



To make the subsequent descriptions clear, the author first gave 

 a normal or typical section of the older Palaeozoic rocks, by enume- 

 rating (in an ascending order) the great groups which have been 

 well established, as follows:— 1. Skiddaw Slate. 2. Chloritic slate, 

 porphyry, trappean shales, &c. 3. Coniston Limestone, calcareous' 



