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Cloud, stopping a few minutes to look at one of the finest views 
in the upper part of the vale of Gloucester—wanting, indeed, the 
variety afforded by the broad estuary of the Severn, as seen from 
the hills nearer Bristol; but shewing most grandly the beauties 
of the upper part of the vale, with the Malvern and Abberley 
hills on the one side and Bredon on the other. 
After a walk over the down, we reached the quarries above 
Postlip, but I fear that our Geologists found but little encourage- 
ment from a most unfossiliferous bed of freestone; while at 
Postlip itself we should have much more enjoyed the sight of a 
fine old mansion, (though now somewhat dilapidated and used as 
a farm house,) had we not been previously somewhat saddened by 
the sight of a once beautiful though small chapel, converted into 
a cow-shed. All the information we could get, was that “It 
hadn’t been used asa chapel for twenty years, and, for aught 
they could tell, not for fifty.’ Thrice the latter period would 
probably have been nearer the mark. ' 
Here we called a council of war, and agreed to form sections. 
The one party continuing their geological examination of Cleeve 
Hill, on the summit of which they lighted on a somewhat peculiar 
bed of sand, while others walked on to Sudeley Castle, where, 
though from the absence of the kind and hospitable owner we 
were prevented from seeing the interior of the house, the exterior 
well repaid our walk. 
After dinner was read,—alas, in Mr. Buckman’s absence,—his 
interesting notice of a new sepiostarium, obtained from the Lias 
Clays, at Cheltenham, remarkable as being so nearly allied to the 
true sepias of our present seas: thus differing widely from the 
Belemno-sepias, or Belemnites, which are so abundant in the 
Lias. The present individual possessed a very perfect ink bag, 
which, with its tube, measuring about four’inches, was full of the 
fossilized pigment, mineral sepia, from which drawings, illustra- 
tive of the specimen, had been made by Professor Buckman. 
On the 22nd of June, we met at Fairford, ina great measure 
for the purpose of examining that most interesting collection of 
the corals found in that neighbourhood, by Miss Slatter, whose 
researches may yet throw a new light on the stratigraphical dis- 
tribution of the rocks around Fairford. But the subject of corals 
is one which is wont to give rise to such long though highly 
interesting discussions, that, as we have plenty of work for this 
evening, the corals shall be left to their rest. 
We next went to the church, whose magnificent windows of 
painted glass were most ably illustrated and explained by Mr. J. 
D. Thomas Niblet, whose long study of the subject makes us wish 
much that we had a more fully published account of the church 
from his pen and pencil. So thoroughly, indeed, is he “ at home” 
here, that at one period the only direction by which a letter could 
find him was—J. D. Thos. Niblet, Esq., West Window, Fairford 
~ Church. 
The site of the Fairford Saxon graves, situated about one mile 
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