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A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… The substrata are chiefly greywacke and clayslate, and the rocks generally of the transition formation. Sandstone is … valuable by being brought under tillage. The prevailing rocks are gneiss, with portions of granite, quartz, whinstone, and some rocks of the micaceous class. Bog-iron ore has been found; …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… the neighbourhood are an immense cairn, and a cluster of rocks, respectively called Tom Tallan's Grave and Crag. …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… The surface consists of elevated and sterile hills; the rocks are clay slate; the soil of the arable land is sandy, … kind of natural wall, formed by the side of the limestone rocks, in which is a small cavern, styled Cradock's Church, … Being interrupted in its fall by a projecting ledge of rocks, about ten or twelve feet below the summit, it dashes …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… the western part of Craven, presents a confused heap of rocks and mountains, among which Pennygant, Wharnside, and … petrifactions of animals have been discovered in the alum rocks in the vicinity of Whitby, in the North Riding; as also … the North and West Ridings. The remarkable assemblage of rocks called Bramham Crags, about nine miles north-west of …
A History of the County of Somerset
… mud-flats there are some fine stretches of sand and low rocks covered with seaweed which attract small parties of … and is reported to have done so at the Ebbor Rocks in the Mendips. It is improbable that it breeds within … have been found breeding on Brean Down, Sand Point, Barton Rocks, Burrington Combe and the Cheddar Cliffs. It is …
A History of the County of Somerset
… Freshford (Charbonnier) Ceroxys pictus, Mg. St. Vincent's Rocks (Curt., B. E.) Ptilonota guttata, Mg. Freshford …
A History of the County of Somerset
… at the back of it, which leads to some crevice amongst the rocks or the herbage or the chinks in the walls of outhouses, …