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Leintwardine and Bnrrington are interesting districts for the 

 geologist, and [many beautiful SUurian fossUs are to be obtained 

 there — such as Star-fishes and Trilobites. Leintwardine famished 

 one of the most important fossUs ever discovered. There was for- 

 merly a prevailing notion among geologists that they had detected 

 the precise'period, in past geologic epochs, when fishes were created, 

 and that this period was during the deposition of the uppermost 

 Ludlow strata, the well-kno^Ti " hone-beds." They were mistaken, 

 for Mr. Lee, of Caerleon, a member of the Woolhope Club, found 

 the remains of a fish at Leintwardine, in the lower Ludlow deposits j 

 and these lower Ludlow beds are many hundreds of feet lower than 

 the bone bed of the Upper Ludlow rocks. 



At Pedwardine, near Brampton Brian Park, there is a remark- 

 able section, shewing the Lingula flags uplifted, and containing 

 Dictyonema sociale, and a small OboleUa. These beds are precisely 

 similar in mineralogical character, as well as in fossil remains, to 

 those detected some years ago on the south-western flank of the 

 Malvern Chase End. The beautiful scenery of Croft Ambrey, and 

 Shobdon with its ruined Church, come within the Aymestry district. 

 Therein we have "VYigmore Castle, and Leinthall Earls, and many 

 otherji^ localities most interesting to the archseologist, botanist, and 

 geologist. Lucton, at the extreme edge of the district, is close on 

 the junction of the Old Eed and upper Silurian rocks. The trap 

 of the Clee HiUs is no doubt a portion of the Plutonic agent 

 that uplifted the Silurian rocks of this district. Aymestry was 

 for many years the residence of the discoverer of the foaeils of the 

 "Silurian System," the Eev. T. T. Lewis. He it was who, with 

 Dr. Lloyd of Ludlow, first correctly established the divisions of the 

 Upper strata, and collected the fossil remains of the Old Eed and 

 Upper Silurian deposits. He communicated his discoveries to Sir 

 KoDERiCK MuRCHisoN, who was then indefatigably engaged upon 

 the investigation of the rocks of SUuria ; and we possess the result 

 in those'^standard English volumes, "The Silurian System," and 

 "Siluria," works of which not only the author, but the English 

 nation, may be justly proud. 



