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course of draining operations, were found fragments of a white 

 band of lias claystone, full of a small trochiform looking univalve, 

 apparently unnamed. 



On the summit of the hill was obtained a fine series of charac- 

 teristic Marlstone and Upper Lias fossils, already enumerated by 

 Buckman and Strickland. 



The day was one of excessive heat, and never was proffered 

 refreshment more willingly accepted than that at the residence of 

 Edward Holland, Esq. 



A brief visit was paid to the Church, in consequence of a won- 

 derful account of the antiquity of the bells, upon which were said 

 to be inscriptions in characters so ancient and difficult as to have 

 perplexed all the literati of the vicinity. As the honour of the 

 Club was somewhat at stake, an attempt at the solution of the 

 mystery was hazarded, and one bell which was pointed out as a 

 test was examined. It bore the well-known name of Rudhall, of 

 Gloucester, with the date of 1729, and the following inscription: 

 " I to the church the living call, 

 And to the grave do summon all." 



How often do difficulties of much more serious import to us 

 vanish upon being boldly confronted ! 



Messrs. Woodward, of Bredon, with Mr. Woodward of Beckford 

 Hall, joined the Club at dinner at Beckford Inn. 



On September 15th, the Club met, after various alterations of 

 the fixture, at the Tetbury Eoad Station, whence they proceeded 

 to Sapperton tunnel, pausing for a while to examine and speculate 

 on the interesting fault at Hailey Wood. At this point I parti- 

 cularly regret my own absence from the party, inasmuch as the 

 origin of various faults (at least in the human race) has of late 

 years formed the staple of my studies ; and among so many 

 learned men discussing the origin of one " very interesting fault," 

 who knows what valuable lights might have been thrown on my 

 own studies ? As far, however, as the Chronicles of Buckman 

 inform me, no suggestion was made as to that point of principal 

 utility in searching into faults, viz. the best mode of amending 

 them ; he tells me that even the faults of the geologist are inte- 

 resting. 



And here, my friends, while we end our account of the summer 

 gatherings of last year, I have unintentionally given an instance 

 of the mode in which a mind is always apt to return, in season or 

 out of season, to the subject which usually engrosses it. Shall I 

 cry peccavi, and promise not to offend in a like manner again; or 

 shall I brazen it out, and maintain that I was right and my re- 

 marks not alien to our Club ? I'll take the latter line. I regret 

 to say that but few days ago, a member of our Club intimated to 

 me that he thought that an antiquarian subject, (he did not mean 

 himself, for he is comparatively a young member,) was foreign to 



