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fish-house stands may he spoken of as a complete library of 
natural records in several departments of science : its peculiar 
characteristic is the successive series of volumes — if I may 
be allowed the term — which are offered to the study of the 
inquirer. In Horton Church the archaeologist will find a 
venerable memorial of successive stages in the history of 
English Ecclesiastical architecture, not less interesting 
because of the secluded locality in which it stands and the 
quaint and mellowed beauty of the structure. The student 
of the earlier and mysterious period which immediately 
followed the departure of the Eomans, and the inquirer into 
pre-historic and pre-glacial palaeontology will find here the 
Victoria Cave, besides many other caves doubtless still 
containing silent memorials awaiting the investigator who 
will make them speak. Nowhere in England are more 
remarkable series of problems and illustrations presented 
to the geologist than are found in these dales — from the 
Pleistocene back to the so-called primary formations there 
are innumerable exposed sections of singular impressiveness. 
On the one hand we have the boulder clay resting on the 
upturned edges of Silurian slates, and right opposite these 
same slates surmounted unconformably by the carboniferous 
limestone ; while, a little beyond, the face of the millstone- 
grit is seen; and the diligent explorer will find traces of 
many other intervening series. All around are evidences of 
wreck and change ; synclinals and anticlinals abound ; 
perched blocks — Silurian and sandstone— are strewed in 
hundreds, often of enormous size ; the limestones are of the 
most varied composition and texture; and innumerable 
waterfalls, chasms, and ravines at once charm the lover of 
the picturesque, tempt the adventurous, and present examples 
of the various stages in the formation of valleys. The little 
islands, carpeted with the painted cups of the grass of 
Parnassus, the deep fissures shading the green spleen wort, 
