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run down in all directions seawards — small proprietary rights 

 sadly interfering thereby with the roaming instincts of the free 

 Briton. Looking upwards from the yellow sands a very fine section 

 of Lower Lias beds about 250ft. in height are seen from summit to 

 base. The horizontal reefs extend to low water mark, the 

 lowest of them being a blue coarsish crystalline limestone, its 

 outer surface roughened with angular and sub-angular pebbles of 

 Chert and Mountain Limestone. Fossils seemed scarce in these 

 lower reefs, but blocks with impressions of Ammonites Bucklandi 

 were scattered about under the cliff, probably fallen from higher 

 beds above. The strata were nearly horizontal with perhaps a 

 slight dip landwards. After an early breakfast a start was made 

 at 9 a.m. for Sutton, Mr. Storrie, who had come all the way from 

 Cardiff, kindly acting as guide through the day. Following the 

 cliff road by the farmhouse of West, before descending to the 

 sea level a halt was called at a road section on the left, where 

 the Sutton stone was first seen and many characteristic fossils 

 were found on the heaps of weathered blocks lying about, e.g. 

 Peden Pollux ; Osirea multicostata ; Cardinia Suiionensis 

 (Tawney), &c., &c. Passing still further downwards another 

 section on the right just above some houses was visited, it was 

 here that the Sutton stone was originally quarried for building 

 purposes. Standing on one of the " tips," now grass grown, the 

 Secretary gave a short description of the geology of the district, 

 and the discoveries made here by their late lamented brother 

 geologist, Charles Moore, "They were standing (he said) on 

 that remarkable formation called the '* Sutton stone/' so named 

 from the locality where it was first worked — the question was, 

 to what particular position in geological sequence these beds 

 belonged — were they representatives of the Ehsetic series 1 a view 

 once held by a very able geologist, now passed away to the 

 majority, (his friend E. B. Tawney), but a view which he, the 

 Secretary, knew had been given up at the latter period of his life 

 — or were they representatives of the Lower Lias — the Ammonites 



