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ment of its Mineral Treasures.— Upper Ludlow Deposit; Aymestrj Limestone; both Deposits of peculiar Interest to the Scotch Geologist - The Lingula Lewisii and Terebraiula Wilsoni.—General Resemblance of the Silurian Fossils to those of the Mountain Limestone.—First-born of the Vertebrata yet known.—Order of Creation.—The Wren's Nest.—Fossils of the Wenlock Limestone; in a State of beautiful Keeping.—Anecdote.—Asaphus Caudatus; common, it would seem, to both the Silurian and Carboniferous Rocks.—Limestone Miners.—Noble Gallery excavated in the Hill | 72 | |
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Dudley; significant Marks of the Mining Town.—Kindly Scotch Land* lady.—Temperance Coffee-house.—Little Samuel the Teetotaller.—Curious Incident.—Anecdote.—The Resuscitated Spinet.—Forbearance of little Samuel.—Dudley Museum; singularly rich in Silurian Fossils.—Megalichthys Hibberti.—Fossils from Mount Lebanon; very modern compared with those of the Hill of Dudley.—Geology peculiarly fitted to revolutionize one's Ideas of Modern and Ancient.—Fossils of extreme Antiquity furnished by a Canadian Township that had no name twenty years ago.—Fossils from the Old Egyptian Desert found to be comparatively of Yesterday.—Dudley Castle and Castle-hill.—Cromwell's Mission.—Castle finds a faithful Chronicler in an old Serving-maid.—Her Narrative.—Caves and Fossils of the Castlehill.—Extensive Excavations.—Superiority of the Natural to the Artificial Cavern.—Fossils of the Scottish Grauwacke.—Analogy between the Female Lobster and the Trilobite | 92 | |
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Stourbridge.— Effect of Plutonic Convulsion on the surrounding Scenery.—Hegley; Description in the "Seasons."—Geology the true Anatomy |