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No. 13. — Thin hard hands of Oolitic Limestone, without fossils, 

 eighteen inches. 



No. 14. — Thin beds of fine-grcdned Oolitic Limestone, four feet 

 six inches. 



No. 15. — Hard Bubbly Oolite Marl. — This occurs in broken 

 masses five feet thick. 



These three beds are well exposed in a small escarpment on 

 the western slope of the hiU, near the large Freestone Quarry. 

 They contain few fossils, and the rock is much shaken. 



No. 16. — The Lower Freestone. — Attains a considerable 

 thickness in Cleeve Hill, and has long been extensively raised 

 there for building purposes. It is divisible into two terraces, the 

 Upper of which contains the best beds of stone. The rock is a 

 fine-grained thick-bedded OoHtic Limestone, remarkably free 

 from organic remains and ferruginous stains. The Upper terrace 

 is 26 feet in thickness. 



No. 17. — The Lower Freestone. — The LoAver terrace is exposed 

 on the western escarpment of the hill. The rock is not equal 

 in quahty to the beds in the Upper terrace, and it is therefore 

 not now worked for biulding-stone. Its exact thickness I have 

 not ascertained. I estimate it at 40 feet. 



No. 18. — Hard Beds of Pisolitic Oolite, and 



No. 19. — Buff-coloured Pisolitic Limestone, forming a kind of 

 transition Hthological condition from the Oolitic Limestones of 

 the Freestone to the beds of Roestone and Pea-grit. 



No. 20. — The Roestone forms the base of the Freestone series. 

 It consists of a whitish Limestone, composed of large Oolitic 

 gr:ins, containing a great variety of smaU Shells, Corals, and 

 Echinoderms, in very fine preservation. In some respects the 

 general fades of the fauna of the Roestone resembles that of 

 the Great Oolite of Minchinhampton. Many of the Mollusca 

 are specifically distinct, and others are identical with those of that 

 formation. The shells are nearly all small, and well preserved. 

 In some, the colouring is present, and there are many \indescribed 

 species in the series. My friend the late W. H. Gomonde, Esq., 

 obtained many beautiful Alaria, with their long spines, from 

 this bed at Leckhampton; and my old fellow- workers and valued 



