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The chief points that we notice in this rapid glance are, 
Ist, the finest cutting of all, as we pass through Hampen hill, 
and which gives us the Fuller’s Earth, and particularly a very 
deep exposure of the Great Oolite, which is brought down by a 
fault, very well shown just above the first bridge; 2nd, the 
large section of Clypeus Grit exposed near Notgrove Station ; 
3rd, at the highest point of the line the lowest beds, viz., the 
Oolite Marl, shown at Notgrove Station; and lastly, the 
extremely tumbled character of the Inferior Oolite as we 
approach Bourton, some of the beds of which are tilted at an 
angle of 55 degrees. (Cuttings I and II west of Bourton.) 
Coming to a more particular examination of the Inferior Oolite, 
we find that in the various cuttings where this formation is 
exposed we are very frequently shown entirely different series 
of beds, and to enable us to trace out their sequence in detail 
it becomes necessary to examine all the sections, because 
in no one section or series of sections is it properly shown. 
In fact we find that we have to travel several miles along the 
line in order to get the connecting links between the two 
sections which occur, one on the east and the other on the 
west side of Notgrove Station. It is however an extremely 
fortunate thing that the whole of the links are present 
from the lower portion of the Oolite Marl up to the Ful- 
ler’s Earth, and very probably further, had we wished to 
explore it, and that the beds of a section so far overlap the 
beds of the one geologically below it that we always have 
complete evidence of their connection. In my explanation 
I intend to so arrange the sections I have made that they 
shall fully demonstrate the manner in which I have been able 
to arrive at my conclusions. The first table which I append 
isa generalised profile of the whole of these cuttings, with 
the localities at which the beds are best exhibited, and giving 
references to other parts of the Cotteswolds, with the zonal 
arrangements, according to my view, and also according to 
the view taken by Dr Wright in treating the same beds in other 
parts of the Hills. 
