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over the upturned edges of the coal rocks. The history of the 

 escarpment on which stands Hazeldine is that we are here on a 

 line of fault, which runs at right angles to the range of the 

 Malverns ; and you may he assured also that the uplifted axis 

 of the Malverns runs on its line to May Hill, a very short 

 distance to our westward, under a covering of Triassic and 

 Permian rocks, and close to the locality of the Castle Tump, 

 which we visited last year on our Newent expedition. The 

 particular fault we are now on is what is called a cross fault, 

 which runs from south-west of the Chase End Hill, by the Glynch 

 brook, below Hazeldine, and below Eedmarley Church. It then 

 faces the south, and crosses by Pauntley and Colin Park, where 

 the lower Keuper Marls are elevated, as well as the lower Keuper 

 Sandstones. When examining the district eastward, it is always 

 well to remember that the place of the waterstones in situ, and 

 when not faulted, is below the lower Keuper Marls in the plain, 

 east of the faulted escarpments. Indeed they have been met 

 with in situ, and their proper geological position, in the plain 

 opposite to Hazeldine ; for some years ago at a cottage a little 

 east of Bury Court, near Eedmarley Park, they passed, in sink- 

 ing a well, through layers of lower Keuper Marls, and quarried 

 the peculiar honeycombed, cornstone-looking beds which are 

 the upper members of the lower Keuper rocks of the district. 

 There are some pebble-beds towards the base of the water- 

 stones, which may be seen at a small farm called The Berrow 

 Farm, in the parish of Dymock. They occupy the crest of a 

 low escarpment, and contain pebbles of a quartz rock, exactly 

 similar to those of the famous Budleigh Salterton pebble-beds 

 in Devonshire. Professor Peestwich visited these beds with 

 me, and we believe that these Dymock quartz pebbles were 

 derived from the same source as were those which consti- 

 stute the conglomerate far away in Devonshire. A search 

 among these quartz-pebbles of Dymock by Captain Egberts of 

 Hazeldine, shows them to be fossiliferous, and I wish some one 

 would examine them more closely. Eedmarley has also some 

 claim to archaeological interest. Its mill is recorded in Saxon 

 times, and its woods are spoken of in the days of Edwakd the 

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