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These remarks are only offered until some more satisfactory 

 explanation can be found for tlie meaning of a Sculpture which 

 appears to me to be of no common interest, and which should be 

 carefully preserved among the other interesting lapidary records 

 of Roman Bath. 



Notes on the occurrence of Salt Springs in the Coal Measures at 

 Eadstock. By J. McMurtrie, F.G.S. 



(Read 10th Felrmry, 1886;. 



While engaged during the past year in carrying out a deep 

 sinking in the Coal Measures at Radstock, the writer encountered 

 certain Salt Springs not previously met with in the parish, and 

 believing it to be a comparatively rare occurrence in the Carboni- 

 ferous series, he has thought it of sufficient importance to bring it 

 under the notice of the Bath Field Club. Had these springs been 

 met with in working coal near or under the sea, as in the 

 Whitehaven, Newcastle and other coal fields, their presence would 

 not have occasioned any surprise ; but their occurrence in an 

 inland coal field, twenty-one miles from the nearest sea board, is 

 very remarkable, and it has given rise to much speculative inquiry 

 as to their probable source. 



In order to explain the position in which these Springs were 

 met with, it is necessary to point out the geological features of 

 the locality in which they occur, which are probably familiar to 

 some who have turned their attention to the subject, but may not 

 be so to others. 



Although Radstock is known chiefly in connection with coal, 

 a geological stranger visiting the place would be surprised to 

 find that, after examining every hill and valley within the parish 

 he had entirely failed to discover any trace of Coal Measures, except- 

 ing those unsightly shale tips which now disfigure what was once a 

 picturesque rural parish. The explanation of all tliis is that the 



