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present daj', as so many of the churches bear witness. The 

 problem was, how with the bad roads of former days they were 

 enabled to convey the material so far. As to the details of the 

 section he referred to the late Mr. Charles Moore's description, 

 which is given below in ascending order : — • 



Feet. Inches. 

 Inferior Oolite ; Yellow " Brim Sands" with occasioDal 



concretionary boulde IS of Sandstone ... ... 80 



Bottom bed — hard Nodular bed, not worked ... ... 1 4 



Gray bed ... ... ... ... ... 2 



Ditto ... ... ... ... ... ... 2 6 



Ditto ... ... ... ... ... ... 2 



Ditto ... ... ... ... ... ... 1 8 



The "Yellow beds" closely bedded, varying from 2ft. 



to 1ft. 6in. ... ... ... ... ... 50 



" Ochre " — consisting of Yellow sands, sometimes passing 



into Sandstone ... ... ... ... ... 30 



The "Gray beds" yield the best weathering stone, and are 

 separated from the '-Yellow beds" by a band about 1ft. thick 

 containing many pellets of iron ore (Somerset Archaeological 

 and Natural History Society, vol. xiii. 1865-6). Mr, 

 Trask told us that in working back the quarries many hut 

 circles had been destroyed containing skulls, burnt earth and 

 pebbles. During the morning an example of one of these " finds" 

 was shown by a workman, consisting of round water worn flint 

 pebbles, a broken imjilement, probably portion of ?. polished celt 

 made of some hard blue stone ("? igneous), and some bones of 

 domestic animals, sheep, &c. The flint pebbles looked 

 like sling stones. The Secretary thanked Mr. Trask for his infor- 

 mation, and said he would supplement his remarks by calling their 

 attention to the numerous fissures and joints running at cross 

 angles to the beds, facilitating the removal of the large blocks 

 from their parent bedding. Having accompanied Professor 

 Boyd Dawkins to these quarries a few weeks ago, he could give 

 them the substance of the latter's remarks on these beds. Beinsr 



