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Remarks on the Lias of Barrow in Leicestershire, compared with 
the lower part of that Formation in Gloucestershire, Worcester- 
shire, and Warwickshire. By the Rev. P. B. Bropirz, M.A., 
E.GS., Vice-President of the Warwickshire Naturalists’ Field 
Club. 
Reap 27TH JANuARY 1857. 
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Durine a late visit to the well-known Lias quarries at Barrow- 
on-Soar, I was able to compare the various sections there 
exposed with those in the equivalent beds in Warwickshire, 
Worcestershire, and Gloucestershire ; and, although I could de- 
tect no remains of Insects, nor even ‘a trace of them*, the posi- 
tion of the strata, and their lithological characters, are identical 
with the true Insect limestones in the counties above men- 
tioned. 
As Mr. Jukes has already described the lower Lias at Barrow 
and the neighbourhood in ‘ Potter’s Charnwood Forest,’ it will 
be needless for me to repeat those sections ; but it will be neces- 
sary to give one not referred to by him, taken from an upper 
quarry of Mr. Lee’s, in order to identify the beds,—where we 
have, in descending order, 
ft. in. 
1. Alluvial drift, sand and red clay,’with rolled boulders of Lias 8 0 
mp blite wlistlels, He saree yascuak (b cacearel sa Pe nesags tl dessuenesubceRb ames 3.0 
Hard blue limestone (Rummels), ith young Plagiostoma gi- 
3 { gantea, Lima rudis, and numerous Ammonites, similar too 9 
the Plagiostoma-bed in Gloucestershire ..............seeeeeeee 
Re MNICK (Wlixe SHBG ureateescre tases tetasacescdoenanst seecscesceseenec de 4 0 
5. Blue limestone (representative of Insect-bed) ...........se0000e 0 6 
eb Es ache shia’ 25s cei ties cach cates shades daawaceesniddopleasiongeavaice akties Lyy2 
7. Limestone (representative of Insect-bed) .......e:ccsseseeseeeees 0 6 
PESACH SAIC c 0. sce cecabele cemeinteends «aces dusaccsssenssenesd dode ss ars 1 0 
Blue nodular and crystalline limestone (top hurls)—a very 
9 peculiar band, resembling a bed near to the ‘firestone’ of jo 6 
Warwickshire, as at Grafton in that county ...............66 
10. Shale. 
Bottom of quarry. 19 5 
As Mr. Jukes truly observes, the strata vary considerably 
even in adjacent quarries—certain beds thin out and others come 
* Although, in the short examination I was able to give the Barrow 
limestones, I could discover no Insect remains, nor could hear of any 
ever having been found, it is possible that a closer research would detect 
them. 
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