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Foulmire's farm is not at all surprising, and had a deeper excavation been made 

 when Mr. Salter visited it, I feel sure that he would not have expressed any 

 doubt about it. As a mere question of physical geology, it appears to me that we 

 should fairly expect to find the Sandstone at many points where in the lower 

 valleys the overlying rocks had been removed, leaving the earlier formation in its 

 original position, and openings in the lower ground might in all probability 

 detect it. 



I wish to take this opportunity of stating that there is a considerable mass 

 of Aymestrey limestone seen in a newly opened and much disturbed quarry on a 

 hill near Sollars Hope, where I think it has not been before observed. As 

 this limestone only appears at a few places in the neighbourhood, it is desirable 

 to note it wherever it can. be traced. Though so rich in fossils at Aymestrey 

 and elsewhere it is here nearly unfossiliferous. 



The Rev. J. D. La Touche took exception to the supposition of the 

 occurrence of any sudden enormous force in the production of the arrangement 

 of rocks before them, and thought that the agencies now in action were sufficient 

 to produce the results by gradual denudation, if only time enough were allowed 

 for the purpose, as shown by Sir C. Lyell is his able work. 



Wji. James Neville, F.G.S., London, also called in question the assumed 

 fact that lake deposits were necessarily level. The sediment from streams was 

 flat, but that from lakes was irregular. A general conversation now brought the 

 discussion to a close. 



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