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to the examination of the geologist than the May Hill rocks or Upper Llan- 

 dovery Pentamerus beds with their peciiliar and distinguishable fossils. I 

 think it very probable that a railway shaft driven through the centre of the 

 hill, say from Longhope to Huntley, would expose rocks of Lower Silurian, 

 Cambrian, or even Laurentian age, as we know that Laurentian rocks enter 

 into the structure of the Malvern Hills, a few miles to the north of May Hill, 

 and we also find the May Hjll or Upper Llandovery deposits laid down uncon- 

 formably over and against older rocks, as at Chiu-ch Stretton, the Wrekin, 

 and many other localities. The oldest rocks, however, as exposed to view ai'e 

 the dark greenish beds with veins of quartz seen near the village of Huntley 

 close by the road. These are now known to be of Llandovery age, although 

 once supposed by Sir R. Murchison to be Cambrian rocks, for some years since 

 Lingula ParalleUa, a characteristic Llandovery fossil, was found in them by 

 Mr. Turner, formerly a schoolmaster at Pauntley. Pentameri, Stricklandinia 

 lens, and Lingulas, aU common fossils in these strata have been found in 

 the beds where they are quarried, a little south of the circlet of Scotch 

 I'irs. The Woolhope limestone, which in the valley of Woolhope, Malvern, 

 Ledbury and other districts overlies comformably the Llandovery rocks, is but 

 poorly exposed on the flanks of May Hill. It maybe seen, however, as a mass 

 of nodules and shales on the road from Huntley to Mitohaeldean and Ross. 

 The Wenlock limestone is and has been extensively quarried in the picturesque 

 woods you see on the east between the summit and the vale of Newent, and 

 known as Ristley Wood and Jordan's Wood ; while turning to the west we see 

 a long north-western prolongation from Blaisdon on the south, where the 

 Wenlock beds rise sharply from the Triassic rocks of Leigh-park and Birchen- 

 grove to Aston Ingham on the north-west, where they abut against Old 

 Red Sandstone. The characteristic fossils are numerous, some of the shells 

 being covered with corallines, and the collector may obtain some beautiful 

 specimens by searching among the shales in the old quarries. The Aymestrey 

 limestone and lower Ludlow shales appear to have thinned out much in the 

 May Hill district ; nevertheless both may be studied on their uplifted strike, 

 south-east of Flaxley-abbey and near to a remarkable faidt, where Ludlow 

 and Aymestry rocks are faulted against Old Red Sandstone on the Flaxley 

 side, and new red marls and keuper sanclstone on the other at a place called 

 Grove Farm and Broughtons. Years ago I accompanied Mr. Strickland to a 

 section of the Ludlow bone bed, which he had detected in the railway cutting 

 at Flaxley, and on other occasions I have found there remains of Pteraspis 

 and Scaphaspis, both Silurian, and lower Old Red forms of fish. The Upper 

 Ludlow shales are passed just east of the Longhope station and they contain 

 Chonetes lata and Serjjulites longissimus with other typical fossils. The pas- 

 sage beds are exposed on the east side of May Hill as well as on the west at 

 Flaxley, at a place called " Clifford's Meend " or " Mine." East of Clifford's 

 Meend, also, there are coal measures brought to the surface at Bowlsdon, and 

 which are faulted between the Old Red Sandstone of Acorn Wood and the 



