You will all remember the hospitable reception whicli we met 

 with at Lyston, the residence of one of our Vice-Presidents, Mr. 

 LiNGWOOD, prior to our excursion on the 5th of June. The object 

 of OUT meeting was to explore that well defined ridge, known as 

 Saddlebow Hill, which appears to an observer from the northern 

 part of this County, as one of the southern barriers to the valley of 

 the Old Eed Sandstone. Mr. Lingwood had discovered a head of 

 Pteraspis Lloydii in the cornstones of Orcop ; there was therefore a 

 reasonable hope that we might on our way find some traces of the 

 old red fishes. In this we were disappointed ; but, although we 

 failed to find any fossil remains, we obtained an admirable survey 

 of the country. Having ascended the hill from Lyston, we looked 

 down on the well Avooded grounds of Mynde Park, and passing near 

 Orcop, and over Saddlebow Hill, arrived at Garway Hill, the 

 extremity of the range. From its summit a magnificent prospect 

 opened to our view ; to the west lay the Skyrrid, and the hills of 

 the upper division of old red, which surround Abergavenny — to the 

 north-west the long range of the Black Mountains, and in the same 

 direction, considerably iu advance, the comparatively low range of 

 comstone hUls which extends from St. Devereux to the Wye at 

 Whitney ; — looking to the north, over the wide valley of old red, 

 Lady Lift and Dinmore hills appeared — beyond them the Ludlow 

 rocks, represented by Hergest ridge and Bradnor, and, in the 

 extreme distance, Eadnor Porest, occasionally hidden by passing 

 showers ; — to the east, the well-known features of the Titterstone 

 Clee-lull and Wenlock-edge, and the somewhat tafne outline of the 

 Longmynds, the oldest of our fossUiferous rocks, thus affording a 

 view of the whole range of Palaezoic rocks. — Turning round to the 

 south, Monmouth and Eoss lay before us, and the valley of the 

 Wye, flanked by the coal basin of the Forest of Dean — to the east, 

 the Malvern hills, with the range which runs along the vale of the 

 Severn, and the more distant Cotteswolds, representatives of the 

 Oolite formation, in the background. It would be difficult, perhaps, 

 to find a spot where a better view can be obtained of tlie Old Eed 



