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however, of the late Saranel Woodward, who may truly be said to 

 be the Father of Geology in the eastern counties, and whose memory 

 I honour as my preceptor ; of Sir C. Lyell and Mi-. Symonds, late of 

 Cromer ; of E. Taylor, author of "The Geology of East Norfolk ; " and 

 of the Eev. Charles Green, author of " The Geology of Bacton " (page 

 69), is so direct that it would be a waste of time to add more. As a 

 question has been raised by Mr. Norton as to the validity of the 

 evidence of Sir C. Lyell, and also of Mr, Symonds, I will mention 

 an incident which occurred at Cromer in 1862. I had the gratifica- 

 tion to accompany Sir Charles, together with Sir J. D. Hooker and 

 the late Mr. King, of Saxlingham Eectory, to the Hotel des Bains at 

 Cromer ; and in the evening Sir Charles requested Mr. Symonds to 

 join our party. The conversation turned on the Forest-bed, and Mr. 

 Symonds mentioned that he had observed Sir Charles to pay particular 

 attention to the annual rings of growth on the stumps or stools of 

 the forest. 1 do not remember the precise place where, or the year 

 when, this took place; but it is indelibly fixed in my memory that both 

 Sir Charles and Mr. Symonds said they had seen the stools in situ. 



I will mention one corroborative fact, which convinces me that the 

 trees must have grown on the spot at Happisburgh, namely, the 

 finding a large quantity of leaves imbedded there in a muddy 

 ooze. These were seen by Dr. Falconer, hy whose advice I had a 

 large quantity conveyed to Irstead, and they were identified by Dr. 

 E. H. Nathorst, an eminent Swedish naturalist, as the leaves of two 

 varieties of willow. They must have fallen from trees which grew 

 on the spot. The same may be said of the immense quantity of 

 fir-cones which must have dropped from the trees. Dr. Falconer, 

 with his characteristic sagacity, picked from the interspaces of the 

 teeth of the Bhinoceros Etruscus some remnants of coniferous wood, 

 observing that this showed what the Ehinoceros of the Forest-bed 

 lived upon. Whether the animals and the trees of the forest lived 

 and grew upon the spot where their remains are now found, and 

 whether they are imported from some other unknown regions, I 

 must leave to the judgment of the dispassionate reader. 



10, Cathedral Street, Norwich, John Gunn. 



June lUh,l877. 



GEOLOGY AND SCENERY OF NEWFOUNDLAND. 



Sir, — When my friend Prof. Milne told me of the unfossiliferous 

 character and monotonous aspect of the rocks of Newfoundland, the 

 involuntary " shudder " of which he speaks was occasioned by 

 feelings of commiseration for the geologist who should have his lot 

 cast there, and not, as Mr. Murray seems to suppose, from any 

 opinion concerning the absence of agricultural capabilities or 

 picturesque features in the country. Since, however, I have had 

 the opportunity of reading the valuable notes in your last Number, 

 and studying Mr. Murray's valuable map, the sentiment of horror 

 has been replaced by one of pride in the science which can manage 

 to extract so much of interest even out of the " marshes, thickets, 

 and sAvamps " of Newfoundland. John W. Judd. 



PvOYAL School of Mines, 18^/i June, 1877. 



