312 Mocks of Newton Don. By Rev. George Gunn. 



Total Rainfall for year, 21'96 inches. 



Lowest Temperature 5°, on 6tli January. 



Highest Temperature 86°, on 18th June. 



Coldest day, 6th January — Max. 30°, Min. 5° — mean average 

 Temperature for 24 hours 19-77°. 



Hottest day, 15th August — Mai. 82°, Min. 59° — mean average 

 Temperature for 24 hours 72"15°. 



Greatest ranges of Temperature. 

 29th March, from 26° at 6 a.m. to 62^° at 5 p.m.— 36|° in 11 hours. 

 24th March, from 32° at 7 a.m. to 68° at 3 p.m.— 36° in 8 hours. 



Note. — The Barometrical readings are not corrected to sea-level j the 

 Thermometers are in a large box, 4 feet 6 inches, above the grass ; 

 both readings are taken from self-recording instruments, and cannot 

 be classed as scientifically accurate. 



Rocks of Newton Don. By the Rev. George Gunn, 

 M.A., Stitchill. 



(a.) — Sedimentary Rocks. 



There are two exposures. 



(1.) The first is seen at the wooden bridge which crosses 

 the Eden on the path leading from Newton Don to Stitchill. 

 The rocks are of a reddish, clayey sandstone, containing a 

 number of thin greyish beds of calcareous matter, in the 

 cracks of which deposits of calcite were found, and here and 

 there in the rock were nodules of calcareous matter. These 

 showed a concentric structure when broken up. In this 

 exposure there is a good example of a "Roll" in the beds, 

 i.e. a gentle undulation. The dip of the beds appears to run 

 in a S.E. direction, and the strike to be N.E. and S.W. 



(2.) The second is at the south of the mansion, at the 

 corner of the Mill Haugh Park, and on the banks of the 

 Eden also. It is a siliceous sandstone, and nearly allied 

 to the Quartzites. 



These Sedimentary rocks seem to belong to the Calciferous 

 Sandstones, and are regarded as being representative of 

 the Mountain Limestone in England. 



