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Plate III. fig. e, e, e, shows the bending of thelime-stone, F F a bent stratum of chert nearlyresembling flint.

The lime-stone on the other side of the fo-rest at Barrow on Soar is of a very differentkind ; it contains fossil remains of flat fish,with the form perfect, and the scales pre-serving their pearly lustre. These fish arefound in flattened balls of lime-stone, imbed-ded in the marie which divides the strata.

The hills of Charnwood Forest may be saidto represent in miniature the mountains ofNorth Wales, and those in the vicinity of theLakes . They are principally composed of flintyslate, roof-slate, horn-stone, porphyry, por-phyritic green-stone, and sienite.. No orga-nic remains have been observed in any of theForest rocks, nor in the slate-quarries whichhave been extensively worked for many years.Veins of white quartz containing chlorite in-tersect these hills, particularly in that part be-tween Bardon Hill and the town of Whit-wick. No appearance of any metallic substanceoccurs in these veins, nor is pyrites found inany of the rocks which I examined :—a rock

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