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is seen by the cottage on the South side of the water." This 

 Sandstone is lithologically very like Old Red. The dip is 

 35° SSE., that is to say, similar in direction to but rather 

 steeper than that in the adit. About two hundred and fifty 

 yards to the South- West there are several old pits in the 

 spoil heaps of which fragments of shale, resembling pan, 

 with little bits of coal, may be found in abundance. Another 

 two hundred and fifty yards or so further South-west are 

 beds resembling Millstone Grit. 



These are some of the observations, past and present, u^Don 

 which I base my conclusion, that Old Red Sandstone and 

 Lower Transition Beds are coloured in on the Survey Map 

 as the result of the erroneous interpretation. Of course, if 

 Lower Transition fossils can be found, the existence of these 

 beds could not be questioned. I have searched in vain for 

 such fossils, and found instead coal-flecks and indications of 

 rootlets. 



On remapping the ground on the six-inch scale, I find that 

 the probable run of the fault is from " 707 " to the north of 

 " Quar Tyning " on that map, through the middle of the 

 large R of Emborrow ; or on the one-inch map from the 

 S.W. point of the fault, as marked on the Geological Survey's 

 publication, to between the h and the m of the word " Lech- 

 mere " in " Lechmere Water." To the N.W. of this line 

 Millstone Grit, with beds of pan, thin coal seams, and some 

 clay-iron, has been brought in. 



Ebbor. 



In the picturesque little valley which runs in a north- 

 westerly direction from the mouth of the Ebbor Gorge we 

 have again a puzzling association of Old Red Sandstone, 

 Lower Transition Beds, and Millstone Grit. Here again the 

 insertion of Old Red and Lower Transition Beds is due to 

 erroneous interpretation. 



