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on account of its wide range and distinct character, but also because 
it yields a somewhat peculiar set of fossils. 
A better section is given by a smaller cutting close by westward, 
where the chalk-rock (dipping 2° or 3° eastward) forms a hard ledge 
a foot or more thick, with green-coated nodules at its well-marked 
top, sharply dividing it from the chalk above, whilst on the other 
hand it passes down into nodular chalk, both hard and soft, in which 
another but fainter bed of the “rock” occurs about five feet belaw 
_ the layer of nodules. There are flints in the Upper-Chalk and thin 
layers of marl in the Lower. 
As these sections are very near the outcrop of the Upper Green- 
sand it follows that the Lower Chalk and the Chalk Marl are 
comparatively thin here.} 
Aemacks on Célilton Church. 
By the Rector, Rey. Dacres Oxrvier, M.A. 
(Read before the Society during the Meeting at Wilton, September, 1870.) 
ZjOW EVER conventional such an apology may appear, I can- 
ANN; not proceed with this paper without assuring the members of 
the Society that I enter upon my subject with the utmost diffidence. 
_ When invited, however, to say something about Wilton Church, I felt 
it would be a sort of treachery to decline. Of that Church in which 
I have been privileged for the last ten years to minister—which one 
of Wiltshire’s most distinguished men erected—whose beauty and 
grace and religious impressiveness grow on me daily and hourly, and 
are indeed, the source of one of my life’s chief happinesses—of this 
Church how could I not, when asked, at least try to say a few words? 
To begin then—I have only to remind the members of this Society 
that the gloss on the stone of our Church, and its still sharp and 
unworn lines ought not to deceive or mislead them. For ours is no 
1A very good example of the “Chalk Rock” may be seen on the top of 
Whitesheet hill, South Wilts. It is there about three feet in thickness. W. C. 
