ROSS DISTRICT. 



church, are the equivalent beds of those Old Eed deposits which cap 

 the summit of the Sugar-loaf and the Skyrrid, range high up on the 

 Daren, and support the outlying limestone of the lofty Pen-cemg 

 Calch When, therefore, we examine the position of the Carhonifer- 

 ous limestone at the great Doward, and reflect that the hiUs of 

 Gaxway, Orcop, Kentchm-ch, and many others in the St. Weonards 

 district belong to the comstone series of the Old Eed, we shall be 

 at once struck by the upheaval which has elevated the cornstone 

 strata to the north of Gannerew, and depressed them towards the 



south. 



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NO. 2. THE EOSS DISTEICT. 

 This consists mainly of the valley of the Wye from the borders of 

 Gloucestershire on the south, to Aconbury Hill and Morchford on 

 the north. The western boundary is formed by the line of road 

 from Gannerew, northward, to DewsaU, described under District 1. 

 From DewsaU, at the north-western base of Aconbury Hill, the 

 northern boundary follows a smaU brook eastward to the river Wye, 

 crossing which at Mordiford, it takes the course of the turnpike road 

 to the S.S.E. through Fownhope, Old-Gore, Crowbill, and Broomsash, 

 reaching the borders of Gloucestershire near the Lea. 



The S. and S.E. parts Copped Wood Hill, near Goodrich, although 

 formerly an outlying portion of Monmouthshire, is physically a 

 part of Herefordshire, and is therefore included in this district. 

 By including the hills of Great and Little Doward in this district, 

 aU such portions as belong to Herefordshire, of the belt of Carhon- 

 iferous limestone which surrounds the Dean Forest Coalfield, are 

 included in one and the same district. Thus the plants of these lime- 

 stone rocks appear in one district list only, instead of two, which 

 might have given rise to an impression that they are distributed over 

 a lar-er portion of the County than is really the fact. The tract of 

 country included in this district has long been deemed the most 

 fertde portion of Herefordshire. Botanically it is rich in species, 

 and this, as weU from the varied character of its surface, as from the 

 addition of the limestone plants. Of the Herefordshire rocks, the 

 carboniferous limestone is, I believe, by far the richest as to the 

 number of plants it produces ; not only are some of the most rare 



