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the same may be applied to the Wye. There are evident marks of the soil 

 having been water-worn, all the way at intervals, on the left bank of the assumed 

 lake, from under Sir Herbert Croft's house at Lugwardine above, and at Tidnor 

 F or g e _f or a t least half a mile upon the bank under Sufton Court to the 

 orchard belonging to the vicarage at Mordiford— from the bark yard to the new 

 bridge— particularly from two cottages on the right hand side of the road about 

 100 yards beyond the 5th milestone from Hereford, to the timber yard before 

 mentioned— to and beyond Fownhope— to the Lea brink (What does this 

 name imply?) from hence there are evident marks of a water-worn shore all 

 the way to Capley. On the right bank of the present valley of the Wye there 

 are equally unmistakable appearances, viz., under the Bower Wood, the Red 

 Bank, the Folly farm, Holme Lacey Paik, Hollington, upper part of Hand- 

 cock's Stream, under Ballingham Wood, and thence to Capley. 



In my opinion the level part of the land, known as Lugg meadows, can only 

 be attributed to the subsidence of mud held in solution in water, which water 

 was not running, but still ; I do not think a succession of floods would have 

 left so perfect a level. Near to Hampton there is a large bank containing many 

 acres, composed of gravel, water-worn pebbles, and boulders, lying midway be- 

 tween the streams formed by the Wye and Lugg, and just in the position 

 where the set of the currents would have formed a bank. 



If this lake theory is inadmissible, the river Wye must at some period or 

 other have taken its course over the whole tract of land now lying between the 

 Mordiford and Fownhope road and Holme Lacy ; in either case it is not difficult 

 to account for the proportionably small quantity of drift now visible ; the 

 greater and unknown quantity having been washed away. 



To those who are acquainted with the bearings of this valley of elevation, 

 it is known that from the S.E. extremity of Marcle Hill to Mordiford there is 

 a continuation of high ground, and no break through which the sea which covered 

 this district at the time of its upheaval could have carried off the upraised 

 water ; but on the S. to the W. sides there are many such ; and wherever a 

 break or fracture occurs on the outside range of hills, opposite to it may in- 

 variably be found the debris brought from higher ground by the waters rushing 

 through it to seek a lower leveL 



I take this opportunity of stating that I have ascertained beyond all 

 doubt that the Llandovery Sandstone at the Foulmires farm in this parish, to 

 which I directed the attention of some of the visitors of the Woolhope Club 

 on the 25th of August, 1868, as recorded in the Transactions of that day, 

 is in situ, though contrary to the opinion of a late eminent geologist (T. W. 

 Salter, Esq., F.G.S.), who thought it a transported mass of rock. I am able to 

 speak positively as to this, having caused the soil to be removed until the surface 

 of the Ludlow Sandstone appeared, presenting an unmoved and level surface, 

 liaviDg the usual character of this formation. There is also an outcrop of the 

 same formation, though hitherto, I believe, unnoticed, on the right-hand side of 

 the new road leading from this place to Fownhope. at the base of a wooded 



