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THE GEOLOGIST. 



SEPTEMBER 1862. 



SUPPOSED IMPEINTS IN THE LOWEE CAMBEIAN 

 BEDS OE THE ISLE OE MAN. 



By John Tatlor, Esq. 



Member of Council of 31anchester Geological Society, etc. 



The good example which has been set us by Mr. Salter to look out 

 for traces of mechanical and vital agencies in the Cambrian beds is 

 worthy to be followed by every brother of the hammer ; and instead 

 of waiting, like Micawber, for " something 

 to turn up," to set heartily to work and 

 turn up the stones for ourselves. It is 

 well known what good work Mr. Salter 

 has done in the Cambrians of the Long- 

 mynd, towards clearing up the circum- 

 stances under which those rocks were de- 

 posited, as well as in tracing the remains 

 of their ancient life ; but much remains to 

 be done ere this formation is as well known 

 as the others. One thing, however, is cer- 

 tain, that the Cambrians and the Drift are 

 at present the "lions" of the geological 

 world, so that the study need not suffer on 

 the ground of uDpopularity. 



Being out one day (during a recent 

 visit to the Isle of Man), at Dalby, where 

 the Cambrian rocks are quarried for flags by a newly-formed slate- 



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Supposed footpriut at Dalby, 

 Isle of Man, \ uat. size. 



