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Cloud, stopping a few minutes to look at one of the finest views 

 in the upper part of the vale of Gloucester wanting, indeed, the 

 variety afforded by the broad estuary of the Severn, as seen from 

 the hills nearer Bristol ; but shewing most grandly the beauties 

 of the upper part of the vale, with the Malveru and Abberley 

 hills on the one side and Bredon on the other. 



After a walk over the down, we reached the quarries above 

 Postlip, but I fear that our Geologists found but little encourage- 

 ment from a most unfossiliferous bed of freestone ; while at 

 Postlip itself we should have much more enjoyed the sight of a 

 fine old mansion, (though now somewhat dilapidated and used as 

 a farm house,) had we not been previously somewhat saddened by 

 the sight of a once beautiful though small chapel, converted into 

 a cow-shed. All the information we could get, was that " It 

 hadn't been used as a chapel for twenty years, and, for aught 

 they could tell, not for fifty." Thrice the latter period would 

 probably have been nearer the mark. 



Here we called a council of war, and agreed to form sections. 

 The one party continuing their geological examination of Cleeve 

 Hill, on the summit of which they lighted on a somewhat peculiar 

 bed of sand, while others walked on to Sudeley Castle, where, 

 though from the absence of the kind and hospitable owner we 

 were prevented from seeing the interior of the house, the exterior 

 well repaid our walk. 



After dinner was read, alas, in Mr. Buckman's absence, his 

 interesting notice of a new sepiostarium, obtained from the Lias 

 Clays, at Cheltenham, remarkable as being so nearly allied to the 

 true sepias of our present seas : thus differing widely from the 

 Belemno-sepias, or Belemnites, which are so abundant in the 

 Lias. The present individual possessed a very perfect ink bag, 

 which, with its tube, measuring about four inches, was full of the 

 fossilized pigment, mineral sepia, from which drawings, illustra- 

 tive of the specimen, had been made by Professor Buckman. 



On the 22ud of June, we met at Fairford, in a great measure 

 for the purpose of examining that most interesting collection of 

 the corals found in that neighbourhood, by Miss Slatter, whose 

 researches may yet throw a new light on the stratigraphical dis- 

 tribution of the rocks around Fairford. But the subject of corals 

 is one which is wont to give rise to such long though highly 

 interesting discussions, that, as we have plenty of work for this 

 evening, the corals shall be left to their rest. 



We next went to the church, whoso magnificent windows of 

 painted glass were most ably illustrated and explained by Mr. J. 

 D. Thomas Niblet, whose long study of the subject makes us wish 

 much that we had a more fully published account of the church 

 from his pen and pencil. So thoroughly, indeed, is he " at home" 

 here, that at one period the only direction by which a letter could 

 find him was J. D. Thos. Niblet, Esq., West Window, Fairford 

 Church. 



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