248 



THE MENDIi'S : A GEOLOGICAL llEVEIUE. 



strata formed in the old coal-meaauro swamps, an east and 

 west fold (anticlinal axis) was formed through the flexing of 

 the rooks due to lateral pressure sotting in from north and 

 south. That axial ridge was to the Mendips of to-day what 

 the block of Carrara inarble, as it comes to the hands of the 





(Late KtuF-tn Tti^i-.) ^Y 



l-t, 





sculptor, is to the finished product of his art. It was merely 

 the rough material out of which the hills should be fashioned. 

 We must not suppose that the process of upheaval was a 

 sudden or cataclysmal one. It was one which probably 

 took ages to accomplish. The recently-formed beds, too. 



