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works, black earthenware manufacture, and other subordi- 
nate branches of the arts dependent on mineral masses. 
The outcrop of detached masses of Millstone grit, at 
several high points to the West of the township of Halifax, 
appears to have been taken away to form the walls and fences 
of the reclaimed moor lands in their vicinity, since we are 
now oftentimes unable to discover even their original sites, 
the subjacent strata displaying a coarse sandstone rather 
than a continuous pebbly grit ; though these standing monu- 
ments prove it to have been there, and in immense quantities. 
Such is the case about a mile and a half hence to the West 
and North, from King Cross, by West End, to High Road 
Well and Camp End. Most of the blocks of Millstone grit 
described in Watson's History sixty-five years ago as the 
Druidical remains of this parish, will now be sought for in 
vain for the like reason. In the Upper High Road Well 
Moor, a coarse grit is now working out, in which a few 
fossil plants are found ; and in the lower moor quarry is an 
abundant bed of more compact freestone. 
To the south of this point, near Washer Lane, beneath the 
millstone is a valuable bed of calliard, or fine-grained grit, 
called cutting stone," from which the Trinity Church was 
built; and all along that projecting scar millstone lifts, as they 
are termed, have often been abstracted to form ornamental 
rockeries, and serve for mills. At the opposite range of 
hills, across the Calder vale, is the township of Norland, 
with a massive outcrop of Millstone grit at Butterworth 
End ; and a quarry of gritstone is worked beneath the moor, 
nearer to North Dean. 
This formation constitutes an important feature of the 
scenery in this neighbourhood, and is readily discerned by its 
black and broken angular or rounded surfaces on the brow 
or sides of the boggy moor land hills ; but its appearance at 
