Newport

Newport. 1- A municipal borough of Monmouthshire, forming with Monmouth and Usk a parliamentary borough, is situated on the Usk, four miles from its mouth. It has a large shipping trade, exporting coal, iron, and manganese. The principal manufactures are brass and iron, indiarubber and guttapercha, and railway and telegraph plant. The church of St. Woollos and the town hall are fine buildings. 2. The capital of the Isle of Wight, on the Medina, situated near the centre of the isle, is a municipal borough. It has a fine church containing the monument, by Marochetti, raised by Queen Victoria to the memory of the Princess Elizabeth. There are also a free grammar school, barracks, and a reformatory. .

New Red Sandstone, a name at one time generally applied in England to those red sandstones, breccias, loams, and limestones which overlie the coal-measures or other carboniferous rocks, generally unconformably. They were termed "new," as being newer than the coal-bearing beds, in contradistinction'to the Old Red Sandstone (q.v.), which is older than those beds. Though largely-reddened by iron oxide, their other bright tints gained for them the name of Poikilitic (" variegated"); but the work of Murchison and his colleagues showed that they are made up of two distinct series - one, now known as Permian (q.v.), showing more affinity in its fossils to the underlying Palaeozoic rocks, and the other, now known as the Trias (q.v.), similarly more closely related to the overlying secondary rocks. Though in England no marked boundary line can be drawn between these two series, elsewhere they are often unconformable.