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deposits at Monklands that may be quarried. Mr. Curlet has in 

 his possession a worn molar of Rhinoceros tichorinus from the Lug 

 drifts near Dinmore. 



NO. 9. THE LEOMINSTEE DISTEICT. 



A tract extending from the borders of Shropshire on the north, 

 to the Bromyard and Leominster road, and the river Lug, on the 

 south and S.W. The Bromyard road bounding it from Grendon 

 Bishop to Leominster, the Lug from thence to Mortimer's Cross. 

 The turnpike road between Mortimer's Cross and Eichard's Castle 

 defines it on the N.W., and a line of watershed running fi-om Grendon 

 Bishop in the direction of Bockleton, in Worcestershire, on the east. 



"With the exception of a smaU tract lying north of Berrington and 

 the hamlet of Leyster's Pole, and which pertains to the valley of the 

 Teme, the Leominster district mainly consists of the basins of 

 Stretford Brook, Eisbmy Brook, and Eidgemore Brook, the chief 

 parts of its drainage reaching the Wye by means of the Lug. 



GEOLOGY.— This is a district of Old Eed sandstone, but it 

 contains more than one locality where the stones of the quarry 

 glisten with plates that belonged to the enamelled armour that cased 

 the fishes of the Old Eed epocL Leyster's Pole is one of these 

 locahties. Heads, tails, snouts, and plates of two or three species of 

 Pteraspis and Cephalaspis abound in these quarries. The Eev. J. F. 

 Crouch, and other members of the Woolhope Club have collected 

 some fine specimens from this neighbourhood. A quarry near 

 Puddlestone is famous for its wave- rippled sandstone, and for tracks 

 of crustaceans, or some such animals, preserved on thin muddy layers 

 that lie between the sandstone slabs. In the Worcester Museum 

 there is a fine slab beautifully rippled, and with the marks of some 

 creature that paddled across the ripples. It \v'as left me, as a last 

 token of kindness, by my departed friend, the Eev. T. T. Lewis, 

 The Cornstones of Kimbolton, and the hills east of Leominster, arc 

 fosailiferous, and contain many plates of fish. 



