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MEETING AT HEREFORD FOR WOOLHOPE, 



August 25th, 1868, 



On Tuesday the Club made its annual visit to the district from which it 

 takes its name. About ten o'clock two well-laden coaches left the Green 

 Dragon Hotel, and passing by Hampton Bishop, Mordiford, and Fownhope, 

 finally set down their passengers near the Lindels Quarry, a little beyond Sollers 

 Hope. Here the Aymestrey Limestone is interrupted for the distance of nearly 

 a nule, and the two ridges of "Wenlock Limestone meet at an acute angle, 

 showing dips in different directions. 



The ride of nine mUes was very enjoyable. The welcome rain of the last 

 few weeks had completely renovated nature. The yellow leaves of premature 

 autumn had disappeared, and the trees accorded once more mth the fresh and 

 bright verdure of the pasture. The anomaly of the early ripened fruit, the 

 bright hips and haws, and the size of the acorns, which are peculiarly abundant 

 this year, alone remained. Autumn had seized nearly all vegetation, but 

 siunmer again for a time resumed her sway, and made the journey very 

 pleasant. 



The nature of the ground visited gives prominence to Geology in the 

 day's work ; and though neither plants nor insects, nor anything capable of 

 being baptized with a Latin name comes amiss, somehow or other the earth, 

 and the things under the earth, receive the largest share of attention in these 

 gatherings, perhaps because they are the largest. 



As far as Mordiford the route presents Kttle or no feature of interest. 

 Alluvial flats bordering the "Wye, and Old Red Sandstone Hills on the left 

 and right, had nothing but perfect beauty of outline and rich agricultural 

 value to recommend them. The wooded hills of the Woolhope "anticlinal," 



