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the east window was duly insijected. It was noticed that a stocks, or as Johnson 

 explains it, "a prison for the legs," still was to be seen, close to the churchyard 

 gate. A pleasant stroll through the fields, past the dried up salmon pool, brought 

 the party to the Scutterdine Quarries, and into the road where the address was 

 given in the morning, thus raakiu;^ a circuit of the Westwood and Cherry Hills, 

 which form the south east edge of the Woolhope basin. The carriages were in 

 attendance at Mordiford, to bring the members of the Club back to dinner at the 

 Green Dragon, after which the first thing done was to pass a vote of thanks to 

 Mr. Merewether for his kindness in preparing and reading the papers. 



The Rev. James Davies, read an account of some customs, almost, if not 

 quite, obsolete, which he considered peculiar to this county. Many of the usages 

 that he spoke of were curious and very interesting ; sin-eating at funerals, for 

 instance, was a practice that nobody present had seen, though many had heard of 

 it. 



Mr. Kankin then read a very elaborate and carefully drawn-up paper on 

 the " Difficulties of estimating geological time." 



Both these papers were listend to with great pleasure, and the cordial thanks 

 of the meeting were unanimously voted to the gentlemen who had written them. 



THE REV. F. MEREWETHER'S PAPERS. 



The following papers were read by the Rev. F. Merewether, at the meeting 

 of this club, on the 20th September. As we have stated, a large party drove to 

 Mordiford; and the papers were read at a deep cutting on the left-hand side of the 

 road leading to Haughwood, the party having by that time received several 

 additions since its departure from Hereford. 



"geological drifts op the neighbouehood." 



It is a source of great satisfaction to me that the Club has made its 

 meeting here, because it gives me an opportunity of pointing out to the members 

 the different beds of drift which I described in the paper I had the honour of 

 reading some years ago on Backbury Hill ; and the more so, as the facts I then 

 stated were not only unsupported by any other authority, but are entirely opposed 

 to the positive assertion of a statement which appears in the volume recording 

 the transactions of the Club in 18C6. In an article entitled " Definitions of 

 Districts with Notes on their Geology," in describing the district of Woolhope, in 

 the very first sentence are these words : " Mordiford, at the north of this district, 

 is well worthy of the attention of Geologists, as it is the only locality where any 

 amount of dibris is collected of the immense masses of rock that have been de- 

 nuded." This you will, to-day, have an opportunity of proving to be incorrect. 

 But not only this writer, but even Sir R. Murchison must have been labouring 



