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To revert to Newtown Head. The Government Surveyors, or rather the 
recorders of their proceedings, have fallen into an error respecting Newtown 
Head, which I have in vain endeavoured to rectify. There are two localities 
of that name, one of them situated near Tramore, and the other close to 
Woodstown. They are at least eight or ten miles distant from each other 
and yet those who have written about them jumble the two together or 
confound one with the other. Even General Portlock, who borrowed my 
specimens to figure and describe in his Report on Tyrone and Londonderry, 
has made the same mistake, and although I had previously recommended 
him to avoid the error he states that I obtained the fossils at Tramore, 
instead of Woodstown. In fact I did very little at Tramore as Sir Henry 
James was working the strata there whilst I was plying chisel and hammer 
among the rocks at Woodstown. But when an error of this kind 
gets into print it is very difficult to set it right again. 
In reference to the human skeleton to which Sir Eoderick Murchison 
alludes in his letter, I will on the present occasion only say that I consider the 
evidence conclusive as to its having lain at the bottom of the water 
contenrporaneously with the cockles, the shells of which may now be seen 
by thousands in the raised sea bed at Newtown Head. 
If we examine the Carboniferous Limestone at the Hook Point, it will 
be found that the beds dip at an angle of about 13 p South and maintain 
that inclination with but little variation till they disappear under the sea. 
Many of the beds are broken and fissured, and there are several caverns 
which penetrate the more elevated portions, which however never rise more 
than a few feet above the sea level. Some of the fissures cut through the 
strata for considerable distances, both along the strike, and in the direction 
of the dip. This point is classic ground to the palaeontologist. .Crinoids, 
corals, mollusca, and fish-remains are most abundant, In fact many 
of the beds are made up almost entirely of organic remains, others are 
less calcareous, shaly matter being mixed with carbonate of lime, and 
these are not so fossiliferous, others again are exceedingly hard and dark 
coloured, and from their ringing sound when struck with the pick or 
hammer are locally kuown as the "Black Bell." When I first visited 
this point of land it had never been worked by any geologist, so that I was 
enabled to collect a very great number of beautiful specimens, particularly 
crinoids, corals, and shells. On my making known the rich harvest of 
organic remains there, a host of collectors visited the spot and procured 
many good specimens, among others one of the finest sets of Orodus 
teeth in position hitherto discovered, 
