Delineations of the North Western Division of the County of Somerset, and of its antediluvian bone caverns, with a geological sketch of the district

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Tin, uu'.j'-.ay' h §T©TJ_P. TOOTT BIS WTCK. yncyy- .zt ,M<y I^OIRMAN ENTlAfCE T© FLAX BOURTOKs CHITRCH Published ia LitiLOcrr_a_vhy .by- Jolin _R.-utter , lahsft? sb-u ry .- LondoTi>y Longman Rees SrC° & I&r A Ar&h. 182.9 DELINEATIONS OS THE NORTH WESTERN DIVISION U V I H Ii COUNTY OF SOMERSET _* Sb UK ITS ANTEDILUVIAN BONE CAVERNS, WITH A GEOLOGICAL SKETCH OF THE DISTRICT BY JOHN RUTTER, L'THOR OF FONTHII.L AND ITS ABBEY DELINEATE! •HINTED AND PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHOR, SHAFTESIHR1 LONDON : CXGMAX, HUES, AND CO. AND J. AND A. ARCH, CORNIIII.r. MDCCCXX1X. I o GEORGE HENRY LAW, D. D. LORD BISHOP OF BATH AND WELLS. TO WHOSE SCIENTIFIC EXERTIONS AND LIBERAL PATRONAGE, GEOLOGISTS AND THE PUBLIC ARE INDEBTED, FOR THE JUDICIOUS PRESERVATION AND INTERESTING EXHIBITION OP THE ANTEDILUVIAN REMAINS AT BANWELL, THE FOLLOWING SDegcriptitoe Account OF THAT PART OF HIS DIOCESE IN WHICH THEY ARE SITUATED, IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED lii THE AUTHOR

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The plan ofthe following Treatise, which originated in Notes taken in the summer of 1828, during two excursions through the North-western Division of Somersetshire, has been considerably enlarged by reference to numerous authorities, and by a more recent personal examination of the places described. The Author, in addition to his own labours, has gratefully to acknowledge the receipt of valuable communications from several literary characters, including a gentleman connected with the Bristol Institution ; George Bennett, solicitor, of Rolston, near Banwell; a lady of Banwell ; David Williams, M.A. F. G. S. rector of Bleadon ; and F. Boucher Wright, F. L. S. of Hintou Blewett. To Sir Richard Colt Hoare, bart. F.R.S. F.S.A. he is also much indebted for the liberal permission of reference to his valuable topographical library at Stourhead; and to J. H. Smyth Pigott, of Brockley Hall.