Supplementary Note on the Narborough District (Leicestershire)

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T he outcrops of crystalline rock in the Narborough district were described,in 1878, by the Rev. Edwin Hill and myself in the second of our papers on Charnwood Forest.Since that time the old quarries have been much enlarged and others have been opened. These, one hoped, might have disclosed some new facts, and increased experience might occasionally suggest a different interpretation of things already seen. Hence I became anxious to pay a parting visit to the district before it passed, so to say, into other hands, and spent two or three days there in the Easter holidas of ]893, 2 without, however, the advantage of my friend's companionship, for just at that time he was unable to leave home. On our former visits we had not succeeded in finding either any dykes cutting the crystalline masses, or more than one junction between the latter and the sedimentary rocks of the Forest series. I had hoped that in the process of quarrying some of the one and more cases of the other might have been discovered. But I was disappointed in both respects, though additional information was obtained as to the junction already known in the neighbourhood of Enderby. Some of the pits also afforded rather interesting sections of Boulder Clay. There is, however, so little to record that the fact of our former papers having appeared in this Journal alone emboldens me to submit this supplementary note to the Society. The quarries near the villages of Enderby, Croft, Huncote, Stony Stanton, and

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