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At E^rdisley station, where the party left the train for another "train" of 

 vehicles which awaited them, they were joined by the hon. secretary (the 

 Kev. G. Cornewall, of Bloccas), and some gentlemen from Hay and other places 

 farther westward ; and the whole party proceeded to Kington, on the way, 

 owing to the haziness of the atmosphere already mentioned, seeing but imper- 

 fectly the fine view of the Breconshire Beacon and the long range of mountains 

 stretching down far into Carmarthenshire, of which those twin summits are 

 the culminating points. 



The party reached the pretty little town of Kington shortly before 11 

 o'clock, and were there received by R. W. Banks, Esq., Kev. J. F. Crouch, 

 of Pembridge, and other members residing in the Northern part of the Club's 

 district. After a very few minutes' delay, the whole party started on a 

 pedestrian ramble, Mr. Banks kindly acting as guide. 



The first place visited was the "Crooked well," as to the etymology of 

 the name'of which two interpretations were offered: one, that the word was 

 a corruption of " croehan," from the cup-shaped indentation of the hill in 

 which the copious spring rises ; and another and more probable interpretation, 

 that the word " crooked " is merely the British "crftg coed," or woody hill— 

 an appellation which fairly enough describes the present aspect of the lower 

 part of Bradnor hill, as viewed from the spot where the spring rises. This 

 ■well is referred to in the Rolls of the Manor of English Huntington, temp. 

 Henry V., as "vocatum a croked mill." 



From the Crugcoed well, the party passed by Ivy Chimney to Bradnor 

 quarries, where an outlying bed of Downton Sandstone is worked. The 

 fossils found in these quarries are the following : — Surypterus pygmceus, 

 E. acuminatiis, E. linearis, E. albreviatus ; Pterygntus Banksii, P. stylops, 

 P. gigis, P. problemnticus ; Pteraspis Banksii, P. truncatus. In the Lower 

 Ludlow rock of Brandon wood, Ptcrygotus ptmctatus, the same as at Leintwar- 

 dine quarries. 



Mr. Banks explained that the fossils were found on the tile-stone beds, 

 which, singularly enough are found to thin out as the quarrymen advance 

 Into the rock. Consequently the fossils had become scarce of late. 



The most recent discovery must be noted by the way, which is that in 

 the Downton beds on Huntington hill, in Colva parish, Radnorshire, a short 

 distance to the S. «f Kington, a slab of stone with tracks upon its surface has 

 been found ; and that Mr. Salter, the eminent geologist, proposes to show in 

 an early number of the Geological Magazine that these tracks are those of the 

 Pteraspides, which are. peculiar to the Downton beds. 



From Bradnor quarries, the party passed by Wallstich farm to Bradnor 

 wood. Near Wallstich are the remains of some fiuitless workings for lead, 

 which afford a curious illastration of the errors that "practical" miners, 

 ignorant of Geology, often fall into. Misled by the appearance of a whitish 

 loam a little below the turf, a person who had made a few trials on the Black 

 Mountains was induced about two years since to sink a well here in the hope 



