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figures to illustrate Dr. Lycett's paper ; and I would suggest that it 

 should be one of the first objects to which the Publishing Committee 

 should direct their attention. 



On Wednesday, \2th June, the rendezvous of the Club was fixed 

 at the Feathers Inn, at Lydney, from whence they visited the beautiful 

 and interesting grounds of Lydney Park, which the owner, Charles 

 Bathurst, Esq. had kindly thrown open for their inspection. In the 

 garden, attention was drawn to the noble Spanish Chestnuts, and to 

 some very fine Orange-trees, reputed to have come from Margam, 

 where the stock is said to be derived from the wreck of a Spanish 

 vessel. Passing from the gardens, the party examined all the places 

 where the Old Red Sandstone rock crops out on the right in the park, 

 tracing it to the comer of " Hope's Bottom," and thence to the turn 

 of the " Rocky Walk." The richly wooded eminences, commanding 

 extensive and varied prospects over the Severn and the country 

 beyond, together with the vestiges of a Roman encampment, occupied 

 the time and attention of the visitors to such an extent as seriously to 

 curtail their leisure for the work that was in front of them, some of 

 which was in consequence left undone, to be completed, let us hope, 

 on a future day. 



In a road-cutting, at Sandford, a very remarkable fault in the Old 

 Red Sandstone was exhibited. The Strata dipping in opposite 

 directions, to the N.E. and S.W. In the latter case, the effect is 

 traceable beyond Coleford, as governing the position of the coal in all 

 that part of the Forest. Traces of igneous action are apparent at the 

 point of fracture, in the altered condition of the rock and the roasted 

 appearance of the quartz pebbles, — from which indications some of 

 the Geologists present thought it probable that trap rock might lie at 

 no great distance from the surface. 



The diluvial Clays and Gravels in the neighbourhood of the Church 

 were next examined. It is apparent that a bay of the river formerly 

 came up near to the Church, to the bank now called " the Territt," 

 depositing the blue clay of " the Mead." The Church stands upon 

 gravel, which has been mainly derived from the Coal formation, but 

 exhibiting evidence of more remote water-action in the fragments of 

 ehalk-flint distributed throughout its substance. 



At the new Gas-works, close to the town of Lydney, the party 

 came upon a gravel which was not merely ferruginous, but contained 

 iron-ore in great abundance, varying in size from small grains to 

 pieces several pounds in weight ; derived, of course, from the 

 degradation of iron-bearing strata under the erosive force of water- 

 action of vast intensity, and probably of long duration. 



