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and consists of a capping of Great Oolite only a few feet thick, 
ranging from 10 feet to 6 feet, and varying very much from the 
Great Oolite on the S. side of Path, both in thickness and 
character. When we compare, for instance, the sections beneath 
“ Brown’s Folly,” on the Monkton Farley Down, which is on the 
600 feet contour line, or those at Box, on the 400 feet contour ; 
both of which in a bee line are only distant, in the former, 4 miles, in 
the latter, under 6, we are much struck with the change in the 
lithological character of the beds. The well-known “ Freestone,” 
from 10 feet to 20 feet thick, for which both the latter places are so 
celebrated, are absent or only very thinly represented, and those 
raggy beds which come in at the base of the workable beds, seem 
only here to have been deposited ; in other words, these were 
probably laid down in a more shallow sea than those others, and 
have the facies of the Forest Marble series more fully developed. 
According to Lonsdale, the Great Oolite in the Bath district 
is divided into— 
‘(a) Coarse shelly limestones 
(b) Tolerably fine oolites ‘‘Scallet ” ) Jt 
ial (c) Tough brown argillaceous none 
limestones 
Fine Freestones. “ Weatherstone,” &c. ... 10t0 30 
Lower Rags. Coarse shelly limestones ... 10 to 40 
The following section, on the brow of the hill, was taken on 
May lst, 1894, when I visited the works in company with Mr. 
Inman, and before the cutting had been worked so far back as at 
present I 
(1) HUNTERWICK SECTION. 
Nearly E. or E.S.E. of Barn. Sections run irregularly E. and W. 
Ft. IN. 
Shelly rock cropping up through the surface 
covering of grass and mould . — 
Series of more or less fissile beds and coarse 
shelly limestone ... pl ol! 
Softer beds broken up and more ‘oolitic ... 1 0 
Coarse shelly limestone Ae ss 4 ee 
