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THE MENDTPS : A aEOLOOICAL KKVERTE. 



Such was perhaps the sequence of events in the northern 

 part of our area during the period at the close of which the 

 Old Red Sandstone of the Mondips was deposited. 



Let me devote one paragraph to the history of preceding 

 events before continuing the story of the Mendip area. 



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Straining his view through the long dim vista of geo- 

 logical time, the man of science descries, where England 

 now is, and stretching northward and westward, a great 

 Archajan continent. How the rocks which composed this 

 continent were formed wo know not for certain, so much 



