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6N Thursdav, September 20th, the members made an excursion to that special 

 district' from whence the Club takes its name. Starting at 10 o'clock 

 from Broad-street, Hereford, in a carriage drawn by three greys they 

 drove to Mordiford, and at the bridge over the Lugg, found the Rev F. Mere- 

 wether and two visitors awaiting them. Alighting opposite a pubhc-house bear- 

 ing for its sign a full moon with a particularly jovial aspect, they walked up he 

 road leading to Haughwood, till they came to a cutting about Oft. deep, on the 

 left-hand side. Here the party, increased by the arrival of two former presK ents, 

 James Eankin, Esq.. and the Rev. James Davies, arranged themselves to listen 

 to an address on the " Geological Drifts of the Neighbourhood." 



Mr. Merewether, after pointing out that the road itself was on the drift, 

 shown by the worn banks of the brook, called the "Pentelow," °ntl- one side 

 and the cutting on the other, proceeded to say where it came f rom-the Woolhope 

 Valley ; how it came-by aqueous action, and described it as a mass of friable loose 

 earthy matter, containing rounded and angular fragments, pnncipa ly ^^ Wenlock 

 HmesLe, intermixed with fossils, shells, and corals, generaUy too abraded to 

 specify ; as differing much in thickness, from one or two feet to fifty or more ; a 

 being always found in largest quantity opposite any break in the edge of the 

 Woolhope basin, especially on the south-west side; as extending to Fownhop 

 and to be seen exposed in places on the roadside, to which he would presently 

 conduct the club, and concluded by saying that up to the present t.me the great 

 mass of the drift had never been recognised or described. 



A few questions were now asked and answered. A search for fossils was 

 made by those who came provided mth hammers, and the party were just about 

 to foUow up and trace the drift, when Mr. Merewether pleasantly surprised them 

 aJ], by producing and reading a second paper on the " Probable existence of an 

 extensive lake that had at some time filled up the vaUeys of the Wye, Lugg, and 

 Frome." 



The naturalists were then led to the places on the road to Fownhope, spoken 

 of in the first paper. The best exposure is close to the river-side, beyond the old 

 mill It is rather difficult of access, but well worth the trouble. On passing the 

 Green Man, at Fownhope,' it was remarked that Sir Roderick Murchison had 

 stayed three days in that house without noticing the drift, although it was facmg 

 him At Fownhope. the church was visited, and the tympanum inserted under 



