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from this miscellaneous intrusion. The specimens thus ob- 
tained were carried to Mr. James Plant, who, on the 28th April, 
1874, read an account of them to the Manchester Geological 
Society. One statement which he made then, and which he 
subsequently repeated in his remarks on a paper read before 
that Society, by Mr. Aitken, I must very distinctly deny. 
No bones were ever carted away from the place to any 
bone-mill, nor we (as will have been seen) ignorant of their 
nature; the only foundation for the carting statement is the 
fact that a man, casually employed in the quarry, did take 
a basketful of bones to his house, but they were immedi- 
ately recovered, and are now in my collection. I shall have 
occasion to refer again to Mr. Plant’s observations. 
The position of the quarry is somewhat remarkable. It 
is in a small mountain limestone hill, near the extreme 
north of that tract of limestone which lies between the two 
ranges of millstone grit and Yoredale hills running S.E. and 
S.W. from Kinder Scout. The fault separating the moun- 
tain limestone from the overlying Yoredale rocks of Mam 
Tor runs close to the quarry. The water on both sides of 
the hill runs eastward into the vale of Hope and so into the 
Derwent. To the west is a valley extending about two 
miles in length, whence there is no surface outlet, but all 
the streams disappear towards the south and then turn east, 
appearing again in the Speedwell mine and flowing out of 
the Peak Cavern. There is no drainage from this valley 
into the Mersey, as stated by Mr. Plant, but all the water 
flows ultimately into the Trent, So far also from there 
being no appearance in this localit}^ of “ swallow holes,” as 
he says, there is an unusually large number in the valley, 
one in the quarry itself and another very important one 
close by to the east. 
We commenced work at the end of April. The bones 
observed were in a fissure some little distance up the north- 
ern side of the quarry. We soon ascertained that this fissure 
