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eoal. In the Cemetery-ground, the greenstones predominate in 
the Boulder-clay; next come the granites, felstones, porphyries, 
&c., the whole more or less polished, scratched, or grooved. 
Blocks of quartz-rocks are sparingly seen; but pebbles of it 
abound everywhere, and of endless design and colour. But it is 
the bed about 2 or 3 yards in thickness, immediately below the 
surface-soil, that contains the greatest variety of rock-specimens, 
foreign, native, and local; and although it contains igneous rocks 
similar to those in the Till, with others of like nature, still the Car- 
boniferous and Silurian grits and sandstones exceed in abundance 
all the rest. 
I will now refer to some of those specimens lying before you of 
the Local Drift, which extends for a few miles about Macclesfield, 
since they are very conspicuously represented in the above bed, 
viz. :—rough pieces of Millstone-grit (chiefly specimens of the first, 
third, fourth, and fifth beds) ; and also those of the Yoredale rocks, 
all from the adjacent hills lying eastward. Likewise, from the same 
district, specimens of the Lower Coal-measure Sandstones, contain- 
ing Sigdlaria, Stigmaria, Calamites, Conifere, &c.; also detached 
pieces of Coal, and blocks of Gannister-sandstone, with impressions 
of Stigmarza and reed-like plants; and lumps of Fire-clay studded 
with fossils. 
From the neighbourhood of Buxton, twelve miles off, come frag- 
ments of Carboniferous Limestone, generally ina nodular form, of all 
sizes, well water-worn, and very plentiful, containing fossil shells : 
likewise rough pieces of the same, composed entirely of Encrinital 
stems; also lumps of and single Corals. 
Specimens of the Second Bunter and Permian sandstones. The 
nearest point to Macclesfield, where the former crops out, is at 
Bollington, four miles north-east ; and both appear at Rushton, 
seven miles south. The Second Bunter passes under the town, with 
a north-westerly dip, at about 25 yards in depth, overlain by the 
Drift and débris from the adjoining hills. 
From Alderley Edge, five miles north-west, specimens of the 
Lower Keuper conglomerate-sandstone, and the green and blue car- 
bonates of copper-ore : very large masses of the latter were found 
just below the alluvium. From the same hill likewise, the brown 
and yellow sandstone, or building-stone, some of this being well 
rolled and waterworn; likewise gypsum, barytes, iron-ore, and 
pyrites. Scattered about with the above, either in clayey beds, or 
rough sand or gravel, there were some rounded and elliptically 
rolled lumps of indurated clayey conglomerate, containing small 
pebbles and shells, the latter chiefly in fragments. 
From Newbcld Astbury, near Mow Cop, ten miles south-west, 
Carboniferous Limestone, with some of its peculiar local fossils, 
besides Limestone-shale. From Congleton Edge, nine miles south, 
specimens of the First and Third Grits, which are iron-stained in a 
particular manner not noticeable elsewhere. Coming from a greater 
distance, probably from the Welsh Borders or Cumberland, specimens 
of the Silurian grits and sandstones, a few of them bearing fossil 
