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Landslip in the Isi.k of SiiKPrv. — Sir,- — The following cxiracl from a 
Kentish news])n]H'r, datcil Sept. 25, J 859, may be worth preserving iii your 
magazine, whi('h siiould be the ge()h)gist's rei)ository for recorded (lu-is. "An 
extraordinary slij) of land lias recently taken phice at VV' arden-])oint, on the 
north-east end of the Isle of Shep])y, which has [)hieed the ancient church of 
of that ])arish in great danger, a,s the east end of the chureh is only forty-one 
feet from the edge of the clilf. Persons residino- near the church state that for 
three or foiu- days ])revi(nis to the slip taking jilace a noise was heard at vei-y 
short intervals like distant thunder. Several parts the laud (pasture), witli 
rows of large trees, hurdles, fences, and hedges, have drojjped dowai, and the 
trees stand, with the hedges, hurdles, &c., perfectly upright, as though they 
had been moved by magic ; other trees are partially inclined towards the sea, 
and others arc quite reversed ; the immeuse roots, the growth of numy years, 
are turued njjwards, but not a single tree is buried by the soil. A landslip of 
less magnitude took jjlaee about two years since, which together with the 
present one acted upon a space of more thai\ ten acres of pasture land, in coii- 
sequenee of which the coast-guard station at this place, being considered unsafe, 
has recently been taken down. The land for some considerable distance south- 
east of the church is still opening in large chasms, varying from three inches 
to three feet, and in depth from three to thirty feet." — Yours &c., J. R. T. 
Geology of Harrogate. — Sir, — I am at present staying in Harrogate, 
Yorkshire, and am very much at a loss as to the geology of the neighbourhood, 
and the best localities for iindiug fossils. Thinking it was possible that 
some of youi' readers might find the same difficulty, I have ventured to make 
tlie inquiry, which I ho])e to have answered through the medium of the 
" Geologist," — Yours truly, a Subscriber and Beginner. — Harrogate is 
situated on the millstone-grit (or carboniferous sandstones of the series below 
the coal-measures.) These sandstones (or Yorkshire llagstoues) do not yield 
many fossils ; occasionally a few casts of stems, and some tracks of animals — 
referred to worms, crustaceans, fishes, &c. rossU. rain-prints arc said to have 
been seen on some of the surfaces of the slabs. At Knaresborough, three or 
four miles east of Harrogate, the red rocks and magncsiau limestone of the 
Permian series occur. This limestone is at places rich in fossils. The coal is 
absent there ; but to the south, near Leeds, it is found in its place on the mill- 
stone-grit, and passuig under the Permian rocks to the east of that town ; 
and these in their turn disapjiear under the New Red sandstone, and clays of 
the Vale of York. About iifteeu mdes west of Harrogate, the lower rocks are 
exposed beneath the Carboniferous sandstone, namely the Yoredalc slates and 
limestone, at Bolton Abbey, and the great "Scar" limestone is also shown at 
places near by, but still better to the north west in Wharfedale and Kibblesdalc. 
In the latter valley the stiU lower rocks (Silurian) come to day. The geologi- 
cal map of Yorkshire, by Prof. J. Phillips, (sold by Moidvhouse, York) 
should be the excui-sionist's companion in the wUds and valleys of Yorksliire. 
Sedimentary Deposit of Minerals in a Rock Strata. — Sir, — Your 
obliging notice of my queries respecting the sedimentary de])0sit of minerals, 
leads me to explain more clearly the views I hold respecting the origin of 
minerals, and their disjicrsion and subsequent aggregation in the various strata. 
Throwing aside preconceived ideas of hiterual heat, let us remember that our 
globe was probably first gaseous, then liquid, and now solid ; that minei-als have 
been condensed from the air and sea, not sublimated from beneath. When land 
emerges from the ocean it is satm-ated with all the various compounds of the 
sixty elements. Its elevation is, I conceive, generally speaking the superiicial 
result of volcanic action, and an eidargement of its volume through the forces of 
crystallization. On its exposure to di-ymg influences, the land becomes fissured, 
and its constituent parts attempt to assume an aggregate state, each metal and 
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