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specks, how different they are to the bed in which they are 
embedded! They are not broken up shells, but present all the 
appearance of Oolite, but without the additions of iron. 
When I look at these Lower Oolite beds and see so marked 
a difference in a short distance, I am hardly prepared to admit 
that we now see all the beds as they were originally laid down. 
Compare this section with the Haresfield Hill. The 
Rockery represents the Ragstone, and the Sandy bed is at the 
Horsepools and Painswick ; and here I would remark the quarry- 
man told me that although the bed was not so hard at Haresfield 
as at the Horsepools and Painswick, yet it dulled the tools in 
cutting it, twice as fast, which would probably be caused by its 
being more silicious. 
The Coral bed is, at the Horsepools, much thinned out; 
about half way from there on the way to Haresfield it is several 
feet thick, and yet it is not met with in the latter section. 
Again, how different the beds are at Haresfield compared 
with those occupying a corresponding position at Birdlip and 
Crickley to the north, and the same beds at Ruscombe and 
near to Coaley Wood, south of them. 
I am unable to see how particles of Oolite with so small 
a specific gravity would settle down into small masses as we 
see them in the stone before us. As there is evidence from 
the presence of quartz pebbles, which were brought from a 
distance, that the water could not have been in a tranquil 
condition, the tendency would be, I think, to disperse rather 
than to segregate. 
I freely admit there is great difficulty in considering them 
as pebbles; at the same time I do not think Professor Etheridge’s 
explanation is altogether satisfactory, and I reserve judgment 
until the question has been more fully discussed. My object 
in bringing the subject before the Club, is to give the Members 
an opportunity of endeavouring to work out a difficult question, 
and that we may again have it before us at one of our evening 
Meetings next season. 
