1^ Mr, WiUiani Phi Hips on [Jan, 



the northern pm i ot' t!ie range. Hornblende rock passes 

 into a 



" Substance of a dark green ro/oiirj imperfectly slaty texture, 

 and earthy fracture, and of smooth surface, abounding at the 

 Wych/* and having the appearance of forming a bed there': 

 it is interstratified with beds of red felspar, a Tittle south of 

 the four mile-stone betvveeu Great Malvern and Ledbury, 

 That hornblende passes into this substance will become 

 manifest by the use of the hammer at the Wych. 



Ch'eenstone and sienific rocks, both large and small grained, 

 abound on the sides of End Hill and North Hill, and occur 

 on their summits. Very fine grained greenstone occurs in 

 a columnar form, breaking readily parallel to two of its 

 planes, and sometimes in the form ot an obtuse rhomboid, 

 as near the summit of the Worcestershire Beacon, and on 

 End Hill. A hard and somewhat schistose rock of horn- 

 blende and felspar in minute grains occurs in situ on the 

 western side of the range, south of the Worcestershire 

 Beacon : on the eastern side, a little south of Great Mal- 

 vern, are rocks of crystalline hornblende, enclosing specks 

 of red felspar and quartz, the mass being traversed by veins 

 of epidote. Slaty hornblende enclosing specks and larger 

 portions of felspar occurs at the Wych. 



Homblendey reddish felspar, and quartz, " in small grains, 

 constitute some of the rocks of End Hill and the summit of 

 North Hill, and form a prevailing rock of these hills. It 

 sometimes contains magnetic pyrites, veins of epidote, and 

 sulphate of barytes." 



Hornblende, felspar, quartz, and a little mica, " constitute the 

 rocks on the west side of End Hill ; and on the side of the 

 road leading up to the Wych," hornblende prevails in the 

 latter, and the rock is schistose. 



Jlornblende, with a few spangles of mica, and a little felspar, 

 " on the ridge connecting North Hill and End Hill." 



Hornblende and mica "are the constituents of rocks on the 

 top of the hill between the Worcestershire Beacon and the 

 Wych." 



Hornblende and mica, " in a state of decomposition, mixed with 

 red felspar; rocks of these constituents, and of a slaty 

 structure, occur on the north-east side of the Worcester- 

 shire Beacon, and on the road leading from Great Malvern 

 to St. Anne's Well." 



Hornblende and epidote, '* with specks of mica, and contain- 

 ing veins of epidote, constitute rocks on the north side of 

 End Hill." Rocks of highly crystalline hornblende enclos- 

 ing specks of red felspar and epidote (sometimes without 

 the latter), are found in various places near the northern 

 termination of the range. 



Compact felspar, " of a pale flush colour, is the prevailing 



