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On leaving the Lindel's Quany the route was taken for the Camp on 

 Oldbury Hill, under the guidance of the Eev. F. Merewether. Here the view 

 was magnificent and almost panoramic. It excited so much interest and pleasure 

 that but little attention was paid to the camp itself. It seemed a large inclosure 

 of an oval form, and protected chiefly towards the south and western side. It 

 presents no great signs of strength, but it is of considerable size, and is taken 

 full possession of by agriculture for the gi-owth of wheat and barley. The 

 same elements of interest and beauty in near and distant sceneiy were presented 

 by the whole length of the ridge of Aymestrey Limestone which was followed. 

 On the one side was the May Hill, the whole range of the Malvern HUls, and 

 those still more distant in Gloucestershire and "Worcestershire — the cathedral 

 and city of Gloucester were plainly visible— and on the other side, spread out 

 before the observer, lay the whole valley of WooUiope and its successive ridges 

 of limestone with its dome of May Hill Sandstone in the centre. The merest 

 tyro in science could have made out the geology. Standing on the outer and 

 highest ridge, the Aymestrey Limestone, the lower ridge of the Wenlock 

 Limestone, forming, as it were, an inner line of defence, was immediately ia 

 front. Between the two. with a varying depth, runs the fosse, excavated 

 in the soft Lower Ludlow Shale. Outside, the Upper Ludlow Kock slopes 

 gradually away to pass as regiilarly and conformably under the Old Ked 

 Comstone and Marl, as on the other side it is plunged uTCgularly against it. 

 The difference is all due to the faults which were pointed out by Mr. Salter 

 on the ground. They cut up the north and west side of the vaUey, as it is 

 called, being a space encii-cled by hills, and leave the eastern side almost free. But 

 this irregularity, great as it is, does not prevent the pear-shajied mass from being 

 at once the most regular, as it is the most beautiful, of oui- Silurian districts. 

 It was the general exclamation that nowhere in Herefordshire could so beau- 

 tiful a walk be found, for a similar extent. Partridges seemed to appreciate it 

 also, for no less than four goodly covies were disturbed in the walk. 



At Sleeve's oak a quarry of Aymestrey limestone was examined. Here 

 the jointed structure of the rock is very remarkable. Joints in thi-ee dii-ectiona 

 were observed on the "Woolhope side. The fossils gathered here were chiefly 

 Brachiopod shells, Rhynclionella ji«cu?a,and B. didyina, the former in profusion ; 

 Lingula Lewisii and Chonetes laevigata. 



The route was continued to Hooper's oak, when the descent began and 

 the 'Wenlock ridge was again crossed. In the valley some specimens of Boletus 

 Satanus were gathered, as poisonous as its name and its lurid red colour might 

 lead one to expect. A hopyard in beautiful luxiiriance. How very fine and 

 abundant the hops of Herefordshii-e are this year ! they seem to have enjoyed 

 thoroughly this lovely summer, and to have cared but little moreover for the 

 drought. On the ridge of the "Wenlock Limestone was an old k iln, quite 

 remarkable for the beauty given to it by a luxuriant growth of the Traveller's 

 Joy, Clematis vitalba, which covered it. 



