'Silex arenacea' Salvadori View looking across the churchyard

View looking across the churchyard

looking to the left as viewed

Botanical study of English long blowing honeysuckle

The work has the heading 'Sketch No

'Silex arenacea' Salvadori View looking across the churchyardFossil shells in sandstone, here termed 'calcereous sandstone'. Plate 15 from British mineralogy: or coloured figures intended to elucidate the mineralogy of Great Britain, by James Sowerby, volume 1 (London, R. Taylor & Co., 1804). The accompanying text states that 'Masses of this were found at near twelve feet deep in a lightly gravel stratum, in cutting the canal at the Isle of Dogs' The plate is inscribed: 'Feb. 1 1803. Published by Jas. Sowerby,