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Canynge's day, as does the very small room behind it, which was 

 probably the ordinary abode of the great merchant. 



Thence we went to the Cathedral with its fine Norman Chapter 

 room, the Mayor's Chapel with its encaustic tiles and gorgeous 

 blazonries, and the newly decorated Merchants' Hall, and then 

 spent an enjoyable hour or two all too short, in the Park Street 

 Institution. 



Being here joined by several other Members of the Club, 

 amongst whom, one of the principal was, alas, our deeply lamented 

 friend Strickland, who brought with him his friend Mr. W. 

 Saunders, a geologist of repute, and well acquainted with the coun- 

 try, we agreed, though our winter meetings are usually confined 

 to the house yet, as the day was fine, that we would .explore 

 the Gorge of the Avon, through whose magnificent cliffs of 

 mountain limestone the river has apparently forced its way, 

 presenting a series of geological phenomena, scarcely equalled for 

 interest and grandeur. The varied arrangement of geological 

 beds in this immediate vicinity, independently of the physical 

 changes and contortions to wnich they have been subjected, 

 renders the examination of the geology of the district highly 

 instructive. Here we see the Mountain Limestone and Mill- 

 stone Grit, at high angles of inclination, bringing up the Coal 

 Measures, which are succeeded by the New lied Sandstone series 

 and the Lias ; and, at a distance of three or four miles, Dundry 

 Hill presents its out-lying mass of inferior oolite. The latter 

 indeed we did not reach, but returned from a longer ramble than 

 our winter meeting usually permits, well satisfied though we 

 made no greater discoveries to science than a Conularia in situ at 

 the base of one of the cliffs quarried for road stone, which, so far 

 as any then present knew, had never before been observed in that 

 formation. If, however, we had done nothing to instruct or 

 enlighten the learned of the land, it was something not to be 

 despised, if we had in any degree enlightened ourselves by leading 

 our own minds to thoughts connected with the great truths of 

 nature. At least so thought simplehearted naturalists like 

 Strickland. 



After dinner Mr. Jones produced his drawings of the hierogly- 

 phics on the mummy presented by E. Hopkinson, Esq. to the 

 Literary and Scientific Society at Gloucester. But Mr. Jones 

 found that he had it not all to himself, for Mr. D. W. Nash, an 

 active member of the Syro-Egyptian Society, having come to dine 

 with us, a discussion on the interpretation of the heiroglyphs 

 ensued ; which had the effect of shewing to those ignorant of the 

 matter, like myself, how very nearly two men who have separately 

 studied even so abstruse a science as that of Egyptian hieroglyphs, 

 may bring their interpretations to the same point. 



On Tuesday, May 4, 1852, the Club met at Cheltenham, and, 

 after breakfasting at the Lamb, proceeded, under the excellent 

 guidance of Dr. Wright, for Southam, whence, ascending the hill 

 to the Rising Sun, we turned to the right over the down of Cleeve 



