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large Pholodamye explains the reason for Lycett’s term for these 
beds, viz., Pholodamya grit. In section VIII. I have noted the 
occurrence of Am. Parkinsoni, and a large Nautilus, in the lower 
portion of this grit. | 
The last series of beds which I have to mention are mostl 
brown somewhat sandy strata, lying between the Clypeus Grit 
proper and the Fullers Earth Clay. In the Stroud area the 
only bed that seems to be in this position is what Mr Witchell 
calls (loc. cit.) upper bed of the Inferior Oolite, a fine white 
grained Freestone, three feet thick at Stroud Hill and five feet 
at Rodborough, but this seems to be of a totally different 
character to the beds which we have met with in the Notgrove 
district, and I should rather be inclined to correlate it with 
the upper portion of what I have placed as Clypeus Grit, which 
has sometimes a more compacted Freestone nature. In that case 
these Sandy beds are not represented in the Stroud area. Mr 
Walford* has referred to these beds, and given a section of 
them, and he further tells me that he has found several Trigonie 
in bed No. 4 of his section, so that their true position ought 
soon to be decided. Referring to the section I have given 
(VII.) I have a very strong suspicion that the Inferior Oolite 
proper ends with my bed No. 12. It would require, however, 
much more work to decide the question, but the bed 11, blue 
clay with crushed shells, seems to be unlike anything of the 
Inferior Oolite. But again the Sandy Limestones above are 
peculiar, and I believe quite unusual in the Fullers Earth, the 
only thing that I know of with which they might be in a 
remote degree compared being the Fullers Earth Rock of 
Dorset and Somerset. On account of the unusual sequence of 
strata here shown this cutting is one of the most interesting of 
any, and one to which more attention should be directed. 
Similar beds to those which we have reviewed, viz., the 
Oolite Marl to the Fullers Earth Clay, are divided by Dr Lycett + 
* The so-called Northampton Sand, Quarterly Journal Greological Society, 
1883, p. 225. 
+ Cotteswold Hills, pp. 44-70. 
