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Excerpt from The Journal of the Manchester Geographical Society, 1900, Vol. 16
I ascend ed one of the hills some 4-00ft. Hi her than the plain situated about half way across. This I foun to be also basaltic, but a peculiarity of the basalt was that filling up many of the fissures in the rock was a mortar-like calcareous substance con taining pebbles, which resembled and was of the consistency of chalk.
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