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Canynge’s day, as does the very small room behind it, which was 
probably the ordinary abode of the great merchant. 
Thence we went to the Cathedral with its fine Norman Chapter 
room, the Mayor’s Chapel with its encaustic tiles and gorgeous 
blazonries, and the newly decorated Merchants’ Hall, and then 
spent an enjoyable hour or two—all too short, in the Park Street 
Institution. 
Being here joined by several other Members of the Club, 
amongst whom, one of the principal was, alas, our deeply lamented 
friend Strickland, who brought with him his friend Mr. W. 
Saunders, a geologist of repute, and well acquainted with the coun- 
try, we agreed, though our winter meetings are usually confined 
to the house—yet, as the day was fine, that we would explore 
the Gorge of the Avon, through whose magnificent cliffs of 
mountain limestone the river has apparently forced its way, 
presenting a series of geological phenomena, scarcely equalled for 
interest and grandeur. The varied arrangement of geological 
beds in this immediate vicinity, independently of the physical 
changes and contortions to which they have been subjected, 
renders the examination of the geology of the district highly 
instructive. Here we see the Mountain Limestone and Mill- 
stone Grit, at high angles of inclination, bringing up the Coal 
Measures, which are succeeded by the New Red Sandstone series 
and the Lias; and, at a distance of three or four miles, Dundry 
Hill presents its out-lying mass of inferior oolite. The latter 
indeed we did not reach, but returned from a longer ramble than 
our winter meeting usually permits, well satisfied though we 
made no greater discoveries to svience than a Conularia in situ at 
the base of one of the cliffs quarried for road stone, which, so far 
as any then present knew, had never before been observed in that 
formation. If, however, we had done nothing to instruct or 
enlighten the learned of the land, it was something not to be 
despised, if we had in any degree enlightened ourselves by leading 
our own minds to thoughts connected with the great truths of 
nature. At least so thought simplehearted naturalists like— 
Strickland. 
After dinner Mr. Jones produced his drawings of the hierogly- 
phics on the mummy presented by E. Hopkinson, Esq. to the 
Literary and Scientific Society at Gloucester. But Mr. Jones 
found that he had it not all to himself, for Mr. D. W. Nash, an 
active member of the Syro-Egyptian Society, having come to dine 
with us, a discussion on the interpretation of the heiroglyphs 
ensued ; which had the effect of shewing to those ignorant of the 
matter, like myself, how very nearly two men who have separately 
studied even so abstruse a science as that of Egyptian hieroglyphs, 
may bring their interpretations to the same point. 
On Tuesday, May 4, 1852, the Club met at Cheltenham, and, 
after breakfasting at the Lamb, proceeded, under the excellent 
guidance of Dr. Wright, for Southam, whence, ascending the hill 
to the Rising Sun, we turned to the right over the down of Cleeve 
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