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made through Packington to Ilminster. A halt was made at the 

 hotel for dinner; the church was afterguards visited, and finally 

 departure made for the train (6.45). The weather was aU that 

 could be desired, and in every way the expedition was most 

 successful. 



Owing to the visit of the British Association in August last, and 

 to the preparations necessary for it, the ordinary excursions were a 

 little interfered with. Consequently the following was the only 

 other one of this Section : — 



September 29th, 1875. — A smaU party started by the one o'clock 

 train for Yate; they walked by road to Yate-rocks through 

 " Goose Green." The Carboniferous Limestone was found exposed 

 in quarries with very pronounced vertical joints, always simulating 

 bedding, so regular was the division into masses of a foot thick or 

 so ; the joints were E and "W ; the bedding was at an angle of 

 15° — 20°. A curiously laminated condition of the Magnesian 

 Limestone was found in blocks reposing against the Carboniferous 

 Limestone. Barytes is said to be worked in the red ground out in 

 the vaUey below. 



