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apparent. In many of the spherules, however, no concentric 
structure is discernible, even with the aid of the magnifying 
glass; on the contrary, they appear to be the fragments of lime- 
stone transported and worn into their present form.” 
I may mention the largest grains I have met with are at 
Cooper’s Hill, some of which I produce. 
There is evidence both at Birdlip and Crickley of some 
considerable disturbance in the beds during the time of their 
deposition. At Birdlip the beds rest on the Upper Lias sands 
at a dip of 2° to 4°, and the beds only a few feet above them, 
shew in a distance of 130 feet, to No. 2 section in Messrs Helps 
and Foster’s quarry, a dip of 7°65 degrees, and in the middle of 
the freestone, No. 4 the inclination is 9° S.E; at the top of the 
same beds it is only 2°. 
At Crickley the beds on the top of the Upper Lias sands 
dip 7° to 12°, but I think this may be partly attributable to the 
wasting away of some of the sands beneath, which has tilted up 
the beds. 
And now a few observations as to the celebrated Crickley 
Coral bed, and the places where the same Lower Coral bed may 
be met with elsewhere. In the investigations I have made 
during the last few years, I have been much surprised and 
impressed with its present and former extent, and the evidences 
which exist of its having been much denuded. Commencing 
with the Crippetts, which is about three miles from Cheltenham, 
and which may be regarded as the beginning of Crickley Hill, 
where it occurs abundantly, and with breaks by denudation, it 
is found to the N.N.W. promontory, and from there, with 
intervals, as shewn in the section, to near the Air Balloon. 
Taking Sheepscombe as the next point when there three years ago 
I called on Mr Camps, who lives at the entrance to the village, 
and who was making some excavations in his garden, and at a 
depth of about two feet I saw the Coral bed. Passing through 
the village and descending the hill by the Church, crossing the 
valley and ascending the rising ground opposite, the bed crops 
out on the left hand side, just beyond the blacksmith’s shop, 
and is met with all round the hill, attaining its greatest 
