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The ground from the last bed falls in the direction of the 
Air Balloon, and at a distance of 60 yards the Pea-grit occurs on 
the surface in detached pieces, and 12 yards further is a small 
quarry, shewing the lower coral bed underneath the turf, but 
not in situ, and which has been denuded from beds that are 
swept away. Here the extent of the denudation to which I shall 
hereafter refer, has been considerable; corals being found 
on the surface of the ground for some distance. 
Section No. 2 is taken at a point between Haroldstein and 
Belmont Cottages, and bed 1 is really a series of bed with the 
divisions very faintly shewn, and contains specimens of Trichites, 
Rhynchonella, several species of Perna, Echinus, Gresslya abducta, 
Corbula, Oysters, and some beautiful Bryozoa, and at the top is a 
pebble bed. This bed has within the last two years been found — 
at Haresfield and other places near, and which was thought to 
be new, as well as the occurrence of small pieces of Quartz in 
the Lower beds of the Inferior Oolite, but noticed by Dr Smithe 
and myself at the Horsepools, specimens of which I shewed at 
one of the evening Meetings. 
This however, is an error, for in reading up the minute book 
of the Club, I find that at the Second Meeting held at Brook- 
thorpe, October 6th, 1846, it is recorded that after breakfast 
with the Vicar, the Members went to the Horsepools, and on 
Huddingknoll Hill Mr Hugh Strickland called attention to some 
Quartz pebbles there in the quarry, and also to some pebbles of 
Oolite, in some cases embedded in other Oolite, distinguished 
from the matrix in which they are enclosed by a difference in 
colour and texture, thus evidencing the destruction of older 
rocks of the same nature, during, or previous to the deposition 
of the existing Oolite. I have lately seen the pebble bed 
referred to at the same place. No. 2 is a ferruginous bed, with 
Pea-grit in places, and Nos. 3, 4, and 5 are of like character, 4 
being marked by the presence of oysters. No. 6 assumes a 
shelly marly appearance, and the Pisolite ends with this bed. 
No. 7 is a compact stone, capped by ten feet of freestone, which 
is also covered up about ten feet, and at this point the top of 
the hill reaches an elevation of 790 feet. 
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