GEOLOGICAL LETTERS AND NOTES 277 



Dr. Ingle, Fellow of St. Peter's College :— 



Peter Coll., Nov. 14—1814. 



" I write to announce the arrival of the box from Akeld Hoase^ 

 with the Cheviot Minerals. I delivered the two specimens to 

 Holme ; as yoa conjectured one of them was a Magnesian Lime- 

 stone, the other with the 14-sided crystals of Lead (a nice Cabinet 

 specimen) ought to have been sent to me ; to Holme, who has no 

 Cabinet or collection, it is of no use ; in my Cabinet it would 

 have been valuable. You must manage better in future ! I 

 selected only six for myself, a polished and an unpolished specimen 

 of the Cheviot Jasper, the Madreporite and the Cockle-shells, 

 and a specimen of Crystallized and Carbonate of Lime, and a 

 specimen or part of a specimen of granular Felspar with the green 

 crystals of Hornblende, all of which were acceptable additions to 

 my Cabinet. The remainder I sent to the Professor, and was 

 present when he looked them over ; to him they were all accept- 

 able as specimens of the local mineralogy or geology of the 

 Cheviot Hills, and some of them as mineralogical specimens 

 independent of their locality. One specimen which I should have 

 called Hornblende rock was quite new to the Professor. The red 

 specimen which appears to rest on no particular stratum that you 

 could discover was compact Felspar, and is a very nice specimen. 

 The granular Felspar with the green rhomboidal crystals of Horn- 

 blende he considered of the same formation. There was a nice 

 specimen also of Klinkstone Porphyry, but it is in vain to enumerate 

 them all. I expected to have seen a greater variety of rocks. You 

 sent an abundance of Calcedony, or pebbles. I should expect that 

 at some future time there will be found in the Cheviot Hills 

 some very fine red Calcedony, or Cornelian. What I have put into 

 my Cabinet is very good, and very much resembles what Dr. Clark 

 has got from the country near Bagdad in Persia. We hope you 

 will continue your geological pursuits and occasionally set by 

 specimens for your Cambridge friends. Are there no Trap rocks 

 among the mountains ? and have no Zeolites been found P The 

 Professor had often noticed the circumstance of your promise not 

 having been performed, and I am glad that your box arrived, as 

 they are the first specimens from the Cheviot Hills that have 

 been deposited in the University collection. I am quite surprised 

 that you have not passed over into the Land of Wonders. 



^ Mr Cnlley resided for several years, at this period, at the manor 

 house at Akeld, his uncle still being alive and in residence at Coupland 

 Castle. 



