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rocks, the Clay Slate or Cambrian Rocks. The whole of the Silurian rocks. which 
are elsewhere sixty miles in breadth—say from Malvern to Llandovery—are here 
crushed into a valley half-a-mile broad. Caer Caradoc itself consists of Caradoc 
Sandstone traversed and altered by basalt, which forms the peak; and it is 
apparently the N.W. end of a chain of similar upheavals, beginning with 
Titterstone. The altered sandstone lies upon the basalt on the N.W. side, and in 
the decent of the hill the visitor comes upon other Silurian rocks which overlie 
the Caradoc Sandstone. ‘ At Botville, on the N.W. flank of Caer Caradoc,” 
says Mr. Symonds, “there is a mass of Wenlock Limestone jammed between the 
Longmynd rocks and the Caradoc Sandstone, a proof that considerable earthquake 
movements have affected the whole country since the deposition of the Upper 
Silurians.” The Rev. Wm. Elliot kindly offered to guide the company to an 
instructive section of Aymestrey Limestone, containing in abundance the 
characteristic Pentamerus Knightii ; but the members were so fatigued with their 
decent of the Caer (1,200 feet) that they preferred to leave the limestone with its 
fossils as Wordsworth left Yarrow : 
Whate’er betide, we'll turn aside, 
Nor view the braes of Yarrow. 
Having decended from the hill at its steep N.W. side, the members made 
their way to Church Stretton. 
In the interval before dinner, the party visited the church, where they were 
courtzously received by the Rev. H. O. Wilson, the rector, who conducted them 
round it. The edifice has been very carefully restored, but it still retains two 
features of interest. The south porch, which has been converted into a vestry, 
appears to have been a fine open structure of the 14th century, of a type once 
common in the district, but now preserved only at Credenhill and a few other 
churches in Herefordshire. The doorway is most interesting, being a good 
specimen of Norman work: on the eastern side the capital is entirely gone, 
having been constructed of a tufaceous sandstone ; but the arch and the western 
jam», with sunk column and projecting volute capital are in perfect preservation. 
The north doorway is remarkable on the exterior for a rude carving of a figure 
with arms akimbo, much defaced, the design of which is open to conjecture. 
The style of execution is very rude, and indicates a rustic artist as well as a very 
early period. 
The members met at the Church Stretton Hotel at 4.30 p.m., and partook 
of a well-served dinner, which was thoroughly enjoyed. The long walk, the 
climbing, and the keen pure air of the hills had had their proper effect even upon 
the philosophers, who did not care to realise fully the poet’s heroic resolve— 
.— I am resolved. 
The mind shall banquet though the body starve. 
The chair was occupied by the President, besides whom there were present—Rey, 
W. C. Fowle, Brinsop, and Rey. C. J. Robinson, Norton Canon, vice-presidents ; 
Rey. Donald Carr, Woolstaston, Rev. William Elliott, Cardington, and Flavell 
Edmunds, Esq., honorary members ; Rev. G. H. Clay, Aston Rectory ; Timothy 
Curley, Esq., Hereford; William Carless, Esq., Hereford; Mr. R. B. Davies, 
Moor Court; F. W. Herbert, Esq., Credenhill Park; Joseph Greaves, Esq:, 
