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The land here is quite level. 



A short distance beyond Highnam Church, near the Court, 

 is a pit with 



ft in 

 2 





g£l^^g^gggg|a 



Soil and Peb- 

 bles. 



Beds of fine & 

 coarse Gravel, 

 andQuartzose 

 Sand. 



There are N.D. Pebbles of considerable size but little worn, 

 Syenite, Chalk Flints, rare, but some large, and rolled Gryphites, 

 Belemnites, and Cardinias, &c., &c., from the Lias beds upon 

 which the Gravel rests. There is a Httle Oolite, much water- 

 worn, and its" position seems to indicate having been brought 

 there by a strong current. 



At the Pinetum on Sandy Hill, a short distance from the 

 Keeper's house, close to the footpath leading to Bulley, is a 

 pit fully 7 feet deep. It is mostly Eed Quartzose Sand, some 

 of it very fine ; there are, however, in it a few thin seams of 

 small Quartz and N.D. Pebbles, but no trace of Oolite. 



Prom the number of holes in the hill, the Sand appears to 

 have been worked to a considerable extent, and the hill, which 

 is situated on a fault of the New Eed, has a very steep escarp- 

 ment towards May Hill, resembling some of the Cotteswold 

 Coombes. The high ground from there to Lassington is fairly 

 strewn over with N.D., but on descending into the Valley it is 

 very sparingly seen, not extending beyond Tibberton, or at 

 farthest, Taynton. 



Prom Lassington to Newent, and also on the road to Dymock, 



