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distance of forty fi^y miles from Manchester. Tlic above is formed by a 
little stream which (lows 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 lenj^th ; 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 
sliells of the common Ilclix, &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 Derbyshii'e ; 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 tlaggy 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 miUstone grit, its nearest distance to the mountain limestone 
being 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, which 
wUl 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 lies ; 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. 
Ameeican Fossils. — 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 oblisiug answer in the August 
number of the " Geologist" to my queries on the subject of the best way to 
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