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From the summit of the " Tump " a grand panorama lies 

 stretched around, admirable in its picturesque beauty of hill and 

 dale, and telling a tale of geological time and change truly- 

 marvellous to him -who ponders on these things. No fitter place 

 for a lecture on such a subject could be selected than the 

 "Castle Tump " at Dymock ; and here those assembled had the 

 pleasure of listening to an address from their associate, Mr. 

 Stmonds, of Pendock, than whom few are so well qualified to 

 impart knowledge on such a theme. Commencing with the 

 distant oolitic ridge of the Cotteswolds on the south-east, and 

 the Malvems and May Hill on the north-west, he described in 

 detail the physical geology presented by the Lower Lias and 

 Ehsetic rock, down to the Newent and Bromsberrow sandstones 

 of the Lower New Eed Sandstone, which come up to the flanks 

 of the " Castle Tump, " and stretch away eastward to Eed- 

 marley, Hazeldine, and Bromsberrow. He directed attention 

 to the outlines of Berrow-hill, within 2 miles of the Chase-end 

 hill of the Malvern range, Sarnhill, near Tewkesbury, and Queen 

 hill near Upton-on-Sevem, as evidences of the former extension 

 of the Lias of Corsewood hill and Hasfield, of Tewkesbiiry Park 

 and Brockeridge, on to these outliers now isolated in the vale, and 

 from them on to the ancient coast line presented by the Malvern 

 hills, in times when a liassic sea washed their shores. Mr. 

 Symonds then described the Trias or New Eed Marls as they 

 are seen to emerge from beneath the Lias. These he divided 

 into iTpper, middle, and lower beds, of which the lowest, known 

 as the Bromsberrow or "Bunter" beds, are distinguished by the 

 deep, almost blood-red tint which everywhere on the Continent 

 of Europe as well as in England, appears to characterise them. 

 These rocks rest unconformably upon the Palaeozoic series, the 

 upper member of which, known as the " Permian," is well seen 

 at Hasfield, whose wooded eminence rising above the residence 

 of Dr. Henky, and forming a conspicuous feature in the land- 

 scape, was pointed out by the lectui-er. Here the Permian 

 beds are seen dipping at a high angle against the " Bunter " 

 beds. The Coal-measures which underlie the Permian are 

 thrown down in a vast " fault " between the Permian and the 



