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 easy to decipher, but probably 



" Porta pateat omni honesto 

 Clausa sit omni scelesto." 



Above tbis is a square window, and tben a niche surmounted by 

 an image of the Virgin and Child. On the inner fa9ade of the 

 gate-house there is a large crucifix (N.B. The hair and beard) 

 under an enriched canopy, with fan-tracery in the head, flanked 

 by two niches which no doubt once held statues. Below is a 

 curious inscription — 



' DOVGN QuEcre Domino Yenerando.' 

 The gate-house is, no doubt, fifteenth century work." 



Thursday, 6th. — The party proceeded to Watchet, and thence 

 took the line of coast eastwards to St. Audries' Head. The 

 faults along this escarpment are numerous and instructive. At 

 one point the " Bucklandi beds" of the "Lower Lias" are 

 faulted against the "Keuper," the strata of which are much 

 contorted. The " Liassic beds" abound in huge Ammonites, 

 and represent evidently a very rich zone of life. But it is at 

 St. Audries Head that the finest section presents itself. Here 

 in one grand escarpment are seen in succession, resting on the 

 gypsiferous marls of the " Keuper," the " Tea-Green Marls," 

 " Black Shales," and " White Lias " of the " Ehsetic " series ; 

 the "Ostrea" and " Planorbis beds" of the Lower Lias, 

 succeeded by the " Angulatus " and " Bucklandi beds " of the 

 same group. These abound in their characteristic fossils, and 

 the "Ehffitic beds" in particular are seen in fine sequence; 

 while the dip of the beds brings each in succession to the sea- 

 level, where every yard may be measured and studied with the 

 greatest exactitude. 



Friday, 7th. — The course this day was westwards along the 

 coast in the direction of Blue Anchor and Dunster. This section 

 is even more complicated by faults than that which had formed 

 the study of the previous day, and is in this respect even more 

 instructive; some of the more difiicult problems known as 

 *' trough faults " being here brought under the observation of 

 the student. But as a consequence of this repeated "faulting," 



