20 



part is gone), it is, I think, fair to assume that this immense bank of drift, which 

 is so incalculably larger, must have extended, certainly, beyond the course of the 

 present river, and in all probability for a considerable distance into the opposite 

 meadow. All this, however, is now washed away. An inspection of this bank of 

 drift will convince any beholder, as it has me, that there must have been more than 

 one outflowing of debris, because we see the large and heavier pieces of stone 

 resting on a layer of sand ; whereas had both been deposited simultaneously, the 

 stones, from their gravity, would have been at the bottom, and the lighter sand 

 resting upon them, whereas the reverse of this is the case. In the village of 

 Fownhope, about a quarter of a mile from this spot, is a bed of drift on the left 

 hand side of the road, extending from the bridge opposite the Post-office to a 

 draper's shop nearly opposite the Green Man Inn. Those members who are fond 

 of archaeology will be well repaid for walking as far as the chiuxh, where, on the 

 outside of the west end, is a curious sculptured Tympanum, similar to those at 

 Stretton and Brinsojj. I may here repeat what I stated in my former address, 

 that wherever there is a notch or gorge in the outside edge of the valley of eleva- 

 tion, there is sure to be a bed of drift opposite it — at least this holds good for the 

 S.W. side. The only places where I have been able to discover drifts, are along 

 the road leading from Mordiford to Fownhope, and the outflow appears to be 

 confined entirely to this side of the valley of elevation ; at least, thanks to the 

 road, this is the only place where it is at present visible ; for, from the gorge at 

 Mordiford, where the Pentelow brook now runs, which is somewhere about N.W. 

 from the village of Woolhope, proceeding round the valley of elevation, to the 

 S.B., there is not, as far as I am aware, a single break or notch in the outside 

 formation, through which it is at all likely that drift was ever washed. The road 

 to Woolhope, from Fownliope, where we are now supposed to be, passes through a 

 very distinct gorge, and down this, at the time of the elevation of the valley, 

 supposing it to have taken place when covered by a sea, of which there is little 

 doubt, an immense body of water must have rushed, scouring out the pass, and 

 leaving no signs of drift, till the waters had room to expand themselves, as was 

 the case under Mr. Lechmere's house, where they have left the bank of drift last 

 alluded to. Thus, gentlemen, I have brought you to Fownhope, and to the con- 

 clusion of the remarks on what I have undertaken to point out to you ; and I 

 think, from the occular demonstration you have had, you will be disposed to admit 

 that so large a body of drift as you have seen, is more extensive than any written 

 description of this district would have led you to believe existed. But, besides 

 these beds of drift which are visible, there is a tract of land close to the Court 

 Farm, almost in the very centre of the valley of Woolhope, through which an open 

 drain has been cut, and an opportunity has thus been given of proving that an area 

 of two or three acres has been covered by drift. This, however, is not visible now, 

 but during the dry weather in the summer is easily perceptible. To summarise 

 the different drifts, we have, first, that at Mordiford, by the side of the road 

 leading to Woolhope, through Haughwood ; then the high and long bank of drift 

 opposite the bridge leading to Hobne Lacy ; the drift at the turn of the road, 



