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reached the head of Burrington Combe, where one or two 

 small caves and some fissures on the slopes of the ravine 

 were inspected. Goat Church cavern is here perhaps the 

 most remarkable, not only for the extent of the fissures, 

 but also for their depth. 



On Friday a move was made to Weston-super-mare. On 

 the way a rapid view of Glastonbury was taken by some, 

 while the others visited one or two of the Street quarries, but 

 no fossils were obtained. Some caves at Uphill were 

 examined, and the remarkable sections at Oldmixton, where 

 the Lias is much contorted by movements of the Mountain 

 limestone, against which it abuts. 



On Saturday the party separated, two of them however 

 (Mr. Parker and Mr. Cooke), making an excursion to 

 Brean Down where they collected several specimens of the 

 white Cistus (Helianthemum). This concluded a very 

 agreeable and instructive excursion. 



The club met for its more specially Archaeological day at 

 Long Marston station on the 2nd August, whence some of 

 the party visited the remains of the old manor house of 

 Marston Sicca, built about the middle of the seventeenth 

 century by the ancestors of R. F. Tomes, Esq., and where 

 Charles the second disguised as the serving man of Miss 

 Lane, received his cuff from the cook for his mismanage- 

 ment of the roasting jack, thence the party consisting of 

 Messrs. Kirshaw, F.G.S., Tomes, F.Z.S., Keefe, Burgess, 

 Eayner, Seaton, Brown, Dimbleby, Child, Dale, the Revs. 

 M. Hole, Young, Bain Mandale, and J. Cove Jones, F.S.A., 

 Secretary, proceeded to Clopton at the foot of Meon hill, 

 where a small rectangular entrenchment was inspected; it 



