[50]. “Old Red Sandstone,” p. 86.
[51]. Pterichthys: pteron, a wing, and ichthus, a fish.
[52]. “Old Red Sandstone,” pp. 80, 81.
[53]. Osteolepis: osteon, a bone, and lepis, a scale.
[54]. Operculum, the flap which covers the gill.
[55]. “Old Red Sandstone,” p. 111.
[56]. “Vast quantities:” let any reader go and turn over the non-bituminous shale lying on the waste heaps of every coalpit, and he will see that this is no exaggeration.
[57]. Capillus Veneris.
[58]. Corruption of arrière-dos, a fire-place. See a view and description of one in “A Visit to Penshurst,” in Howitt’s “Visits to Remarkable Places,” Second Series.
[59]. Juicy and soft, as peas, beans, plantains, bananas, &c.