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Mr Tomes suggested the excursion, as he was anxious to re- 
examine the beds, which he had visited two or three times 
before, once with Mr Moors, and with the special object of 
collecting Corals, and to see what Paleontological evidence they 
would give on the subject of this debateable area, and which he 
has since shown, in an exceedingly carefully written paper, 
communicated to the Geological Society on the 19th of March, 
1884, which is published in the Quarterly Jowrnal for August in 
the same year; and his views, I am glad to find, are in accord- 
ance with my own observations. 
We took with us the papers of Messrs Moorsz,* Bristow,t 
Tawney,{ Duncay,§ and’ Tars,|| carefully reading them on the 
spot, and we arrived at the conclusion, with the exception of 
Tare’s, (which is purely Paleontological) they were rather too 
controversial, and that the Geology had yet to be satisfactorily 
worked out. 
I first visited the beds near to the Railway Station at 
Bridgend, which show a great development of Lower Lias, and 
in Mr Moore’s section he has divided them into 476. In three 
places the Clinometer gave the dip to be 23° 20° and 17° to 
the south east. Saw a large Am. sauwzianus ; and when with 
the Club in 1877, it was from this section I found the fine 
specimen of Am. angulatus, which is now in the Ammonite case 
at the Gloucester Museum. 
Mr Tawney has certainly fallen into an error in describing 
this section as Middle Lias, as it clearly belongs to the Lower 
Lias beds. . ; 
The next day by train to Cefn Station, and from there 
walked over a high ridge of Millstone Grit, and descended on 
_ the other side to the Stormy Cement Works, a distance of about 
two miles. The surface the whole way was fairly covered with 
large boulders of the same formation. 
= Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., Vol. XXIII, p. 449, 1867. 
Toy ” " uw Vol. XXIII, p. 199, 1867. 
eT " ” » Vol. XXII, p. 69, 1866. 
Siva. " ” » Vol. XXIII, p. 12, 1867. 
cama " ” w Vol. XXIII, p. 305, 1867. 
