140 Rey. P. B. Brodie on the Lias 
in; thus, in Mr. Ellis’s large pit on the other side of Barrow, 
there is at least 30 feet of shale above the ‘rummels,’ No. 3 in 
section, and there are more courses of limestone, especially those 
which appear to represent the Insect limestone. It is worthy 
of note, that while the Rummels No. 3 is evidently the equivalent 
of the Plagiostoma-bed in Gloucestershire and elsewhere, it is 
succeeded at once by the beds of Lias, which in Gloucestershire, 
Worcestershire, and in some portions of Warwickshire, occur 
much lower in the series, the intervening strata being entirely 
wanting in that part of Leicestershire. Most of the quarries 
do not exceed 30 feet in depth, but some have been opened to a 
depth of 42 feet, the lowest stratum being a bed of blue marly 
clay. The limestones are used in Leicestershire for the same 
economital purposes as the Warwickshire ‘ paving-stones,’ and 
are equally adapted for this object ; but they do not seem to be 
employed for making hydraulic lime, as they are in the quarries 
belonging to my friends Messrs. Greaves and Kershaw at Wilm- 
cote, near Stratford-on-Avon. 
In places there are several small faults, and in one pit the 
lower strata were thrown up so as to form a complete saddle, of 
limited extent, at right angles to Mount Sorrel, not far off,— 
showing on a small scale what the effect of such a dislocation 
would be on a large one. 
Except in No. 3 of section, shells are scarce; below this, I 
observed only a few Ammonites planorbis and Aptychus, and a 
long shell (Meleagrina?) common in the shale at Brockeridge 
Common, near Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire, and there asso- 
ciated with numerous and beautiful specimens of the same Am- 
monite. 
The fine Saurians and Fish for which this district has been 
long famous occur more or less in all the shales and limestones, 
though some courses are richer than others; and for the last 
two years very few have been met with. In Mr. Lee’s extensive 
collection, the genus Dapedium was by far the most abundant, 
many of which were quite perfect ; and among several fine fish, 
I noticed one nearly 2 feet in length, belonging to a different 
genus, and in a remarkably fine state of preservation. 
The only Crustacean I observed was the Eryon Barroviensis 
(M‘Coy), which was small and ill-preserved, and by no means 
equal to the large and perfect specimens met with occasionally 
at Bidford in Warwickshire*. 
I did not detect any remains of plants. 
* This species is not uncommon in the Insect limestone at Strensham 
in Worcestershire (where the finest Insects have been obtained, but the 
pits are now, unfortunately, closed), and Forthampton, near Tewkesbury, 
where they are generally well preserved, though invariably of small size. 
