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exposed there. The rest of the day was devoted to the 
inspection of numerous and interesting gravel-pits at 
Brocklehurst, Pailton, Monk’s Kirby, &e., consisting of 
variable masses of Drift both above and below the Boulder 
Clay, in some places fine and sandy, and at other, 
made up of coarser materials, with much irregular bedding 
containing boulders of rocks of all ages, mostly from the 
north, with large square blocks of Lias, full of fossils, 
boulders of syenite, probably from Charnwood Forest, trap, 
chalk, flints, oolite, and many other formations. No marine 
or fresh-water shells have been discovered in any of this 
Drift, which for the most part covers the whole of this 
district, and entirely conceals the Lias beneath which only 
can be seen on the Midland Railway at Coal-pit Lane. An 
exceedingly fine church lately restored at Monk’s Kirby was 
visited, and Lutterworth Church also restored, but not so 
striking as the former, though of special interest, because 
the great Reformer Wycliffe was formerly Rector of the 
parish. 
