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distance of forty or fifty miles from Mancliester. The above is formed by a 

 little stream wliieh flows out of the hill-side, and trickles slowly down to join 

 a brook at the bottom. The bed is already about ten feet in thickness at its 

 greatest, and about twenty or thirty feet in length ; in composition it is rather 

 harder and more compact than that found at Matlock, and like it contains in- 

 crustations and impressions of various leaves, lichens, and mosses, along with 

 shells of the common Helix, &c. 



Kinder Scout is a hill about one thousand nine hundred feet in height, and 

 is one of the highest points in the Peak of Derbyshire ; its distance from Man- 

 chester is about eighteen or twenty miles. The upper part is composed of the 

 coarse millstone grit, containing rounded pebbles of quartz, and this passes 

 into hard flaggy beds towards the bottom, where the travertine bed overlaps it, 

 so to speak." The travertine is to me the more remarkable from its being 

 found on the millstone grit, its nearest distance to the mountain^ limestone 

 bemg five or six miles. The deposit is only known to a few individuals, and 

 has not been brought under the notice of geologists before. 



The locality may be found by following the course of the Kinder Water from 

 Hayfield; this stream skirts the southern base of the hill, and is joined by the 

 little brook into which the petrifying spring flows, almost at its head. Masses 

 of travertine may be found in the bed of the stream towards the head,_ vvhich 

 will serve as a good guide to the explorer. It is said that great quantities of 

 the travertine have been taken away. 



The accompanying sketch is a view of the spot where the deposit Kes ; the 

 flaggy beds of the sandstone are seen on the right, and the masses of travertine 

 on the left hand. It is well worth a visit, and will repay the trouble of making 

 one. — Yours, John Taylor, Levenshulme. 



American Eossils. — Sir, — Could any of your readers put me in the way of 

 procuring a specimen of Maclurea, and a few other American fossil shells, by 

 exchange or otherwise. — Sigma. 



Arrangement of Minerals. — Sir, — Your obliging answer in the August 

 number of the " Geologist" to my queries on the subject of the best way to 

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