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Notes on Rocks. By W. C. Lucy. 
These Rocks are derived from other localities and found in the Northern 
Drift Gravels near to and within a few miles of Gloucester, and generally 
occurring at heights from 50 to 250 feet above sea level. 
Millstone Grit 
Jasper 
Syenite 
Quartz 
Lickey Quartz (Quarizite) 
Flint 
Felstone 
Chalcedony 
Granite 
Carboniferous Limestone 
Chalk (rare) 
At Limpury Hitt, which is about ten acres of table land formed of New 
Red Sandstone, all the above rocks are found in the drift with the exception 
of Felstone ; and occurring with them in slabs of various sizes, are the 
following Fossils :— 
Heliolites Son 
Halysites catenularius 
Cyathophyllum 
Favosites alveolaris 
Petria bina 
Chonetes lata 
Orthis elegantula 
Atrypa reticularis ... 
Phacops caudatus ... 
Rhynchonella Wilsoni 
Wenlock Limestone 
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Caradoc 
Upper Ludlow 
Wenlock Limestone 
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Also a large boulder of Caradoc, probably from Malvern, 2 ft. long, 1 ft. 6 in. 
wide, and 3 in. thick, which is now in the Gloucester Museum. 
In the NorTHERN CoTTESWOLDs are found, as at LirrL—E WooLrorD, 
BERRINGTON (near Campden), Goose Hii, PAXFoRD, CoMPTON SCORPION, 
BLacKDOWN, BaRTON-ON-THE-HEATH, “ THE Four-SHIRE STONE,’ ASTON 
Maena, MICKLETON, &¢.— 
Millstone Grit 
Quartz 
Quartzose Pebbles 
Hard Chalk 
Red Chalk (Little Woolford), sup- 
posed by Dr. Buckland to be from 
Spilsby, Lincolnshire 
Flints of all sizes, some very large 
and angular 
Chert 
Granite of many kinds 
Fine grained Trap 
Mountain Limestone 
New Red Sandstone 
Coal Measure Sandstone, with 
Stigmaria ficoides 
Jasper 
Syenite (Malvern) 
» resembling Charnwood 
Greenstone 
Mountain Limestone, with encrinital 
stems 
Gneiss 
Hornblende Greenstone 
Brownstone, from the Old Red 
Sandstone 
Permian 
Amygdaloidal Greenstone 
Chalcedony 
Agate 
Metamorphosed Slate 
Saccharoid Millstone Grit 
Greensand 
_ Wherever the Northern Drift occurs at places not mentioned in the above 
list most of the rocks enumerated are found, and I have several rocks 
in my collection which I have not been able to get named. 
