On the Geology of the Isle of Man

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The Geology of the Isle of Man, though possessing much interest, has hitherto scarcely met with the consideration which it really deserves. The earliest geological notice of the island will be found in an account by Mr. Wood, published in 1811; and this was succeeded by a memoir in the First Series of the Transactions of the Geological Society, published in 1814, by Dr. Berger. Dr. Berger's memoir was accompanied by a geological map and some sections, and, together with additional remarks, forming a kind of appendi: afterwards published by Professor Henslow t , it forms an interesting and valuable record of what was then known of the district. Dr. Macculloch, in his Account of the Western Isles of Scotland (vol. ii. p. 516), published in 1819, described (as far as the advance of geological science would then permit) the different characteristic formations. We have also a paper by Dr. Hibbert, “on the Discovery of the Fossil Elk in the Isle of Man,” written for the fifth number of the ‘Edinburgh Journal of Science,’ in 1826. The only later notice seems to have been the interesting paper on the Pleistocene deposits in the neighbourhood of Ramsey, by Hug Strickland, Esq., F.G.S, re~d before the Geological Society in November 1843. A mere glance at the geological map of the island will show the reason of this neglect, for it will at once be seen that about three fourths of the whole surface exhibited at high water consists for the most

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