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The absence of organic remains renders it a more valu- 
able stone for building, and it has the advantage of being 
readily worked when first quarried, but hardening on 
exposure to the air. It is of a more uniform yellow 
colour than the equivalent beds of the more southern 
Cotswolds. 
Higher up, on the summit of the hill, these freestones 
are overlaid by the ragstones, in which fossils.were far 
more abundant, among which the following may be noted, 
fragments of Ammonites, a Nautilus, Belemnites. brevis, 
Ostrea Marshii, Corbula, Astarte excavata, Gervillia. 
Hartmanni, Serpule, casts of Trigonia costata, and a 
large species of Cucullea in fragments, but no Gryphites 
were observed. 
Crossing the fields, towards Campden House, in ‘the 
descent the clays and shales of the upper Lias were observed 
containing Ammonites communis and Inoceramus dubius, 
apparently highly fossiliferous, but no quantity of the clay 
could be got at. Large masses of Oolite had fallen down 
hereabouts and filled up hollows in the upper Lias, 
occurring at a much lower level owing to this slip or sub- 
sidence. A few blocks of the top beds of the lower or 
middle Lias, full of fossils similar to those in the Rail- 
way cutting at Campden, and Hewlett’s hill, near Chel- 
tenham, were seen below, but no section was exposed. A 
very pretty walk along the brow of the hill led the party 
to the back of the “ Bell,” where they dined. 
As no botanists were present, and. no archxological 
objects of interest presented themselves, the. day. was 
devoted to Geology and the enjoyment of the picturesque 
scenery of the neighbourhood. 
