THE GEOLOGIST. 
SEPTEMBER 1862. 
SUPPOSED IMPEINTS IN THE LOWEE CAMBEIAN 
BEDS OF THE ISLE OP MAN. 
By John Tayloe, Esq. 
Member of Council of Manchester 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 Avaiting, 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 unpopularity. 
Being out one day (during a recent Supposed footprint at Dalby, 
visit to the Isle of Man), at Dalby, where 1=^1^ of Maa. i nat, size, 
the Cambrian rocks are quarried for flags by a newly-formed slate- 
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