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that of Mont Grenier, in Savoy, where five parishes were buried beneath rocks 

 and ruins which covered nearly nine square miles. It was just such a wet spring 

 as the present also whicli caused the fall of the Rossberg, near the Rigi, in 1800. 

 The strata there are highly inclined masses of red sandstone and congk)merates, 

 which dip like the roof of a house ; and in the seams caused in the rocks by the 

 washing out of the softer materials, tlie waters accumulated, and caused the 

 tremendous slips which followed. The effect of this landslip was to destroy entire 

 villages and chalets ; more than 400 human beings perished and whole herds of 

 cattle were swept away. One end of the Lake of Lowertz was filled up with the 

 debris, and a wave 70 feet high passed right over the island of Schwanau, and 

 stranded numerous live fishes in the village of Steinen. 



I have visited the sites of several grand landslips in Ireland as well as those 

 on the Continent. Such are those in Kerry, west of Brandon Head, and in 

 Derrymore Glen, a wonderful sight to see, great cliffs 800 feet high, and masses 

 of piled up ruins of ancient hills. So, too, are some slips in Skye and Mull, off 

 the west coast of Scotland, where the waters percolate through cracks in masses of 

 overlying basalt down to strata of soft lias or oolite below. The landslip at the 

 Skyrrid Vawr, near Abergavenny, has laid bare the upper section of the hill, and 

 I expect that the fossil fishes of the Old Red Sandstone might have been detected 

 among the fragments of broken rocks if searched at the time. We have no 

 traditions of the date of this slip, or that of Adam's Rocks, near Dormington, 

 save that, when I was a boy, both were said to have happened when the rocks 

 were rent at the Crucifixion. 



The Woolhope Club knows the geology of its own district so well 

 that it is unnecessary for me to enter into details of the surrounding geology, 

 further than to remind you that in the surrounding scenery you may behold 

 most of the rocks typical of palaeozoic geology, or those strata which contain the 

 relics of those old-life forms of animals which frequented the waters of ancient 

 Silurian, Old Red, and carboniferous seas or lakes, while Haffield Camp is a mass 

 of Permian breccias, resting against an ancient shore line, the rocks of which were 

 constituted of upheaved Old Red and Upper Silurian masses. Nearly on a line 

 with Haffield rise the Malvern Hills, on the southern flanks of which appear 

 Lower Silurian deposits and their fossils, in the broken ground which lies about 

 the Chase-end Hill and the Valley of the White-leafed Oak. The axis of the 

 Malverns themselves consists of very ancient gneiss or metamorphosed and altered 

 strata, which are believed to be as old as the Laurentian rocks of America, and 

 these again are traversed by volcanic dykes. The hill on which stands the Eastnor 

 obelisk, as well as Howler's Heath on the flanks of the Chase-end, is the Upper 

 Llandovery rock at the base of the Upper Silurians, and wherever its flaggy grits 

 occur you may find such characteristic fossils as are Stricklandinia and Pentamerus. 

 The Ludlow and Wenlock rocks of the Ledbury district are famous for their 

 fossils, of the Aymestry, Ludlow, and Wenlock series of shales and limestones ; 

 and the wooded crests of the ridge-like hills tell you of the hard limestones which 



