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station for Ham Hill. Pleasant was the drive in the balmy 

 morning air by upland and deep cut hedge-embowered lane, with 

 distant peeps of church tower, and stately mansion house 

 embosomed in luxuriant foliage, the church of Odcombe conspicious 

 on the right, and the fine Queen Anne fa9ade of Brympton in 

 the vale below. Agreeable, too, was the shade from the long avenue 

 of Scotch firs on either side of the road ; though perhaps not planted 

 by the original makers of the camp, yet planted many years 

 ago by a former owner of Montacute (?) with excellent taste, and 

 seemingly rejoicing in the rich nature of the Inferior Oolite Sands 

 capping the elevated ground on which they grow. At a sharp 

 rise of the ground leading to the outer defence of the camp, the 

 members lefc the breaks and walked up the road cut through the 

 steep vallum on the E. At a small quarry on the right hand, 

 immediately on passing into the camp, the Secretary called a 

 halt, and pointing to. a particular ferruginous band about six feet 

 from the top of the section, suggested that a search should there 

 be made for a small and characteristic shell. Crowbar and 

 hammer having been plied, many specimens more or less perfect 

 were soon found of the Rhynconella cymcepliala, a brachiopod 

 marking a certain horizon in the Pisolitic beds of the Inferior 

 Oolite of the Cotteswold hills. Proceeding onwards from the 

 corner, " too hot" in some respects for the comfort of many, the 

 more airy plateau of the hill was reached, and a short detour to 

 the left led to the quarries so widely celebrated for their 

 building stone. Fortunately the OAvner, Mr. Trask, was there, 

 and from him the following facts were elicited. The deep 

 quarries have only been opened in the present century ; the one 

 above which they were standing, some 90ft. from the top soil to 

 the bottom of the working, only during the last 30 years. The 

 stone had been known and utilized for centuries, the original 

 makers of the camp were acquainted with it, as the use of it in the 

 S. and W. ramparts plainly showed. The Romans certainly used 

 i^, and the architects from the Norman period down to the 



