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the base of the section are found at the height of 833 feet, the 
highest point they are known to reach in the Cotteswold range. 
These are succeeded by the well-known “ Cephalopoda bed,” 
and in seven feet the “ Pea Grit”? occurs, and extends about 
30 feet, when the beds become covered up with detritus; the 
Lower Coral Bed is then met with, containing, on the authority 
of Mr Tomes, the following corals, Chorisastrea rugosa, Latime- 
andra Davidsoni, Donacosmilia Wrighti, Thamnastrea Terquemi, 
T. Defranciana, Oroseris concentrica, Theocoseris polymorpha, &c. 
To this bed succeed 70 feet of Freestone, upon which rest 
the “ Oolite Marl,” and the “Middle Coral-bed,” the latter 
assuming a dome-like form, which is capped by 20 feet of other 
beds, the upper of which contains Clypeus Ploti and Terebratula 
globata. Mr Lucy compared the section with others in the 
neighbourhood of Stroud, in which the beds intervening between 
the “Sands ” and the “ Pea-grit’ are much more developed. 
He likewise pointed out the absence of the “ Gryphite ” and 
“¢Upper Coral Bed,” so well shown at Leckhampton and Stroud. 
Mr Lucy’s notes on the borings undertaken at the instance 
of the Corporation of Gloucester, with a view to procuring a 
supply of water from Birdlip, are of especial interest, and not 
the less so that the project has for the present been abandoned. 
There were four bore-holes made, the first of which was sunk 
at a distance of 1630 feet from the Painswick-road in the upper 
or “Clypeus” bed of the Inferior Oolite. In this water was 
tapped at a depth of 195 feet. No. 2 is 1000 feet from No. I., 
with the surface of the ground 30 feet higher; water was found 
at 186 feet. No.3, which is below the escarpment, was an 
experimental boring undertaken at the suggestion of the En- 
gineer in the belief that a “fault” existed which would give 
a supply of water at a point much nearer to the present reser- 
voirs at Witcombe ; but the operation was abandoned when a 
depth of 56 feet had been reached, as it became evident that 
the sinking was not through beds in situ, but through a mass 
of tumbled oolite. No. 4 is at the edge of the escarpment, and 
is 630 feet from No. 2. The water was tapped at 190 feet, and it 
rose at ence 10 feet, when it attained a permanent level. It 
