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Additional Notes on Cleeve Hill Section. 



By Thomas Weight, M.D., F.E.S.E., F.G.S. 



The prominence given to the sections at Cleeve Hill, in the 

 learned Presidential Address of Sir William Guise, Bart., in 

 March, 1864, and published in the last part of our Proceedings, 

 induced me to visit Cleeve Hill again, in September, 1865, for 

 the purpose of studying the relative position of the different 

 beds developed and exposed at that locahty. The object I had 

 in view was to ascertain whether more recent workings in the 

 Upper Beds had brought any new facts to Hght relative to the 

 correlation of the strata comprising the RoUing-bank Quarry, 

 and described by me in a former paper communicated to the 

 Club. The partial filHng up of the old Quarry, by the soU 

 that had rolled over the glacis of the hill, induced the men to 

 tunnel at a higher level for the roadstone — the best road material 

 of the RolHng-bank Quarry. From this underground quarry a 

 large quantity of good rock had been obtained, and was stacked 

 at the time of my visit. I found a considerable number of the 

 species of shells, characteristic of this bed, so that there could 

 be no mistake as to its identity with the beds previously worked 

 on the western slope of the hill. 



In order to place before the Club the facts upon which I had 

 formed my previous conclusions, relative to the correlation of 

 the beds comprising the RoUing-bank Quarry, I have thought 

 it best to give a general section of the beds developed and 

 exposed at Cleeve Hill, because it forms the highest elevation 

 of the Cotteswolds, and exhibits very fine sections of aU the 

 subordinate beds composing the Inferior OoUte in the district 

 which we claim as our own. This generalised section, (of which 



