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Dunster Castle stands grandly on a wooded eminence over- 

 looking the town. The park is extensive and beautiful, and the 

 Grabbist Hill a fine feature. ThroiTgli this park lay the path to 

 Dunster, and many were the exclamations of delight which the 

 beauty of the surrounding scenery called forth. 



At Dunster the party halted to examine the Church, which 

 presents the peculiarity of a recent nave built on to a more 

 ancient conventual church ; the tower, which was originally at 

 the west end of the latter, being now in the centre. Of course 

 all the interest centres in the older building, in which are some 

 interesting monuments to the families of Mohun and Luttrell, 

 and an elegant ogival arch in the aisle of very unusual con- 

 struction. 



This terminated the day's work and with it the objects for 

 which the Club had been assembled. It is obvious that in so 

 limited a time it was not possible to do anything like justice to 

 the Watchet sections. A week's work at least would be required 

 to be devoted to them. Their correlation is none of the easiest, 

 and nothing has been attempted (critically) relative to the 

 sequence and palaeontology of the Watchet coast. Nothing was 

 seen by the Club of the coast to the east of St. Audries, where 

 days of work are required to work out the "Black Shales," 

 "Planorbis beds," "Angulatus" and "Bucklandi" beds, all of 

 which are repeated in fine condition at Little Stoke. 



The Vale of Somerset offers different conditions to that of 

 Gloucester, and these have to be considered and elucidated 

 under different views and arguments. To the Cotteswold 

 Geologist these Watchet sections possess a peculiar interest, as 

 their correlation with those in our well-known section at 

 Westbury has yet to be worked out. 



It is with great pleasui'e that I am able to announce to the 

 Club an important contribution in connection with this subject 

 from the pen of our friend and colleague, Mr. Ethekidge, of 

 "Notes upon the Physical Structure of the Watchet Area, and 

 the Eelation of the Secondary Eocks to the Devonian Series of 

 West Somerset." This paper is illustrated by sections and lists 

 of fossils, which cannot fail to be of the greatest assistance in 



