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impression on the rock, boring regular holes for charges 

 is almost impossible. By patient working however into 

 and along a joint, an opening is made large enough to 

 hold a cartridge of tonite or gunpowder sufficient to dis- 

 lodge many tons at once. It is interesting to learn that 

 the miner's old friend gunpowder is preferred to its smart 

 modern rival tonite, since the latter almost pulverizes the 

 rock from the suddenness and violence of its explosion. 



The quarry proprietors most courteously entertained 

 the Club at luncheon, after which an interesting paper 

 was read by Mr Clarke, C.E., Chairman of the Clee Hill 

 Dhu Stone Company. This paper is printed, by kind 

 permission of the author, in the present number of the 

 Proceedings, and is well worthy of the perusal of members, 

 giving as it does a most interesting account of the growth 

 of a special industry, much valuable information on the 

 subject of material for road making, and a full description 

 of the Clee Hill quarries and works. 



The whole afternoon was spent in the quarries and on 

 the hill-side, some of the members managing also to pay a 

 hasty visit, on the wav to the station, to the fine old 

 Castle at Ludlow. 



The fourth Field Meeting was held at Evesham and 

 Broadway, on Wednesday, August 29th. The isolated 

 tower, which is all that remains of its once famous Abbey, 

 was the chief attraction in Evesham, but on the way a 

 brief visit was paid to All Saints' Church, where Abbot 

 Lichfield, the last Abbot of the Abbey, was buried, and to 

 the Church of St. Lawrence, formerly a Monastic Church, 

 which for a long period was in ruins, but has been 

 restored during the present century. 



The foundation of Evesham Abbey dates back to Saxon 

 times. We are told that in the reign of Ethelred, Ecgwin 

 " a humble Bishop of Wicci," whose diocese comprised 

 the modern Sees of Worcester and Gloucester, was 

 frequently favoured by visions, and greatly desiring to 



