nvpestHs, the Queen of the Breiddens, in tall branchy panicles 

 of snow-white bloom, grows in profusion. No fear of its being 

 exterminated, as it is protected by the scarped precipices, on 

 which it delights to dwell. This was the crowning success of 

 the day, after which it was necessary to turn in the direction 

 of the Middletown Station, where the train was due at 4.12. 

 By the way a visit was paid to a Baryta mine, now no longer 

 worked, on the Middletown Hill. This mineral is found as- 

 sociated with Carbonate of Lime and Lead, in veins, occupying 

 fissures in the Felspathic Trap. Some good specimens were 

 here obtained from the refuse heaps. 



The party returned by rail to Shrewsbury, where, having two 

 hours to spare, the Museum was first visited, and afterwards 

 the quarries, on the further bank of the Severn. The chief 

 objects of interest in the Museum are the rehcs from Uriconium 

 and the remains of the Bhynclwsaurus from Grinshill. The 

 collection from the former locality served only to show more 

 forcibly the insignificance in an antiquarian point of view of 

 the result of the investigations carried out on that site ; the 

 objects collected are unimportant in number and in value, and 

 bear no proportion to the former extent and importance of the 

 place. In these respects they will bear no comparison with 

 those found at Cirencester, and preserved in the Museum there; 

 nor to those from the villa discovered on the estate of Lord 

 Eldon, at Chedworth, so nobly cared for and preserved at his 

 expense. 



The Ehynchosaurm" remains are mainly referrible to portions 

 of the skull and jaws, in which the prominent eye-orbits and 

 the beaked and edentulous character of the jaws are well 

 shown: but it would seem that if sufficient zeal had been 

 displayed, it should have been possible by this time to construct 

 the entire skeleton of the reptile, of which several important 

 parts are stiU wanting. There remained after leaving the 

 Museum but scanty time for a visit to " the Quarries," which 

 proved full of interest. The beds consist of about 50 feet of 

 stratified sand and gi'avel, the lower portion sandy, and 

 containing Marine Shells; the upper, of gravel with granite 

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