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sandstone on the West, well exposed to view here to the most 
casual observer. In the coal country a few miles to the North 
on this fault a subsidence of 700ft. perpendicular on the West 
can be proved inthe mines. ‘“Swallet holes” abound in this 
fault, and fine springs disappear into them, afterwards according 
to Mr. Norton Tompkins, to reappear at a temperature of 120°, 
and charged with various minerals, at Bath in a direct line, and 
at Clifton by a transverse fault. Here Mr. Tompkins read a 
paper to those Members who were possessed of sufficient strength 
or bravado to despise a bitter northern wind, and the Vice- 
President of the Club, the Rev. H. H. Winwood, declined 
to accept this source for the Bath hot springs. The 
Members were profoundly interested in the subject of 
the controversy, but feeling the pangs of hunger, speedily 
walked through Downhead, with a little church, rebuilt by 
Viscount Portman, to the Bell Inn at Leigh-on-Mendip, where 
the necessary luncheon repaid the toil of the 4-mile walk to this 
elevated village, said to stand 884 feet above the level of the sea. 
This village also belonged to the Abbey of Glastonbury in olden 
times, now to the Horners, of Mells Park. Originally called 
“ Lantocai,” it is mentioned in Domesday book as Lega, and as 
the property of the Church. Hedda, Bishop of Winchester, 681, 
gave it to Glastonbury, and the grant was confirmed by the pagan 
King, Cedwalla, who oddly signed the deed with his own hand 
with the sign of the Cross. The Church of Leigh is most worthy 
of examination. The majestic tower of Henry VII. date has 20 
pinnacles on the battlemented summit, and several additional ones 
on buttresses below. It contains six ancient bells and the luffer 
lights are fitted with elegantly perforated slabs of Doulting stone. 
The height of the tower dwarfs the body of the Church, which is 
peculiarly built in three elevations. The Nave of four bays with 
Norman font andsome oldcarved bench ends, the chancel of two bays 
considerably lower in elevation with good oak roof, the Sacrarium 
lower again with an altar surmounted by a beautiful polished slab 
