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nothing particularly worthy of mention in the top divisions 

 beyond the reddish loam containing the angular and subangular 

 fragments of principally Oolitic debris with now and then an 

 unrolled flint; a deposit of comparatively recent age, the last 

 evidence of denudation possibly occuring just at the dawn of the 

 historic period ; and the evidence beneath this in the lenticular 

 bands of sand, and indications of current marking of the many 

 changes which took place in the force of the stream when 

 they were being laid down. When Ave come to the base 

 however our curiosity is aroused by the size of the blocks 

 which are seen lying on the clays beneath — the old land 

 surface on which they were dropped — large blocks of Sand- 

 stone and Oolite principally from the Coral bed which caps 

 our hills, especially those which flank the Warley Valley. Just 

 above these in the ferruginous and black gravel bands was 

 found the portion of an elephant's tusk which some Members of the 

 Club saw in situ in the Autumn. Before however giving further 

 details of the Manmalian remains let me describe the character 

 of the gravel. Though the great mass of it consists of Oolite 

 and Lias from our hills and valleys more or less rounded, we 

 have in a less proportion flints and chert from the Chalk ; Lime- 

 stone and Millstone grit from the Men dips. These latter are well 

 rounded as we may expect from their distant transport, some 

 score of miles from their parent beds. It would be interesting 

 to trace their course from their home near Frome, through the 

 many windings of that picturesque little river in its present 

 woody and peaceful valley to its junction with the Avon at 

 Freshford; and onwards through the Warley valley into the 

 Bath basin and to their present site so high above the river 

 level. So far for the materials of which the gravels are made up. 

 Now for some peculiarities connected with its deposition. At the 

 base of the beds and resting upon the mottled Liassic clays are 

 many large blocks of Grit and Oolite, which it is difficult to 

 account for, as having been transported by water alone. One 



