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very little change has taken place in our climate since the 

 surface of the country was raised some 700 feet. 



It is quite clear that no Gravel, of the soft perishable kind 

 derived from that part of the Cotteswold Hills, could have 

 endured the variable changes arising from ice, frost, and snow, 

 without being converted into Sand; or indeed, could have 

 resisted the action of sea- water without being reduced to a fine 

 mud. 



Boulders. Although they occur so abundantly in the upper 

 part of the Severn in Shropshire, they are rarely met with now 

 in the district we have under consideration. The nearest point 

 to Gloucester at which I have seen any is Limbury, where 

 small angular pieces of Silurian rock occur. At Haffield, 

 flanking the eastern end of the Malvern range, in some Gravel 

 associated with Boulder Clay, are some large angular masses 

 of Silurian rocks; and also on Holly-bush Common, near Little 

 Malvern, where the contour of the ground clearly indicates 

 an old moraine, and where I found striated and polished rocks 

 from many formations — Gneiss, Granite, Quartz, Greenstone, 

 ■ — and further to the S.E., at an increased elevation, in a lane 

 leading into the Gloucester road, at the Hollybush Pass, part 

 of the original surface of the rocks, forming the mass of the 

 Malvern range on the East, is seen surrounded by a large 

 accumulation of sub-angular Gravel, composed entirely of 

 decomposed Trap. The exposed surface of this rock exhibited 

 a face of 2 feet by 20 inches, upon which we found no less than 

 nine grooves or striations, aU in one direction (55 S.S.E.) Two 

 or three pieces of equally well striated rock were collected in the 

 same debris.* At the comer of a street in Upton-on- Severn is 

 a piece of fine grained Quartzite, of considerable size and very 

 hard, and an old inhabitant told the Rev. W. S. Symonds he 

 had seen similar blocks, which have since been broken up. At 

 Lower Lemington is a large striated boulder of carboniferous 

 Limestone ; and by the side of the road, in the village of Great 



* From observations I have subsequently made during a short stay at Malvern, 

 I think it not improbable that there is evidence to be met with there pointing 

 to an older glacial action than that which forms the subject of this paper. 



