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it was under most favourable conditions of light, shade, and 

 colour, it presented to the eye a rare scene of beauty and 

 enjoyment. 



From hence the party directed their course to the "Jackdaw" 

 Quarry, on Stanway Hill, a splendid development of the 

 Freestones of the Inferior Oolite, 60 feet thick. These beds 

 are wholly unfossiliferous, but a quarry about 50 feet higher 

 yielded a good list of fossils, including Gryphcea suhlolata, 

 Trigonia striata and costata, Pholodomya Heraulti, Ceromya 

 hajnciana, Lucina hellona, &c. At the base of this quarry there 

 is a remarkable band of black Shale, about two feet thick, full 

 of Lucina hellona. May not this be the equivalent of the 

 Oolite Marl? 



From hence a delightful walk of about two miles, through a 

 beautiful wood, in which the botanists of the party gathered 

 Campanula patula, Paris quadrifolia,a,nd Epilohium angustifolium, 

 brought them out on the summit of the hill above Stanton, 

 from whence a rapid descent led them to the residence of their 

 kind host, Mr. Wynniatt, who had made hospitable preparations 

 for their reception and entertainment. 



After dinner, a short note was read from Mr. John Jones, 

 drawing attention to certain beds at Portskewet, of supposed 

 Permian date, and to others at Newnham, containing fossil 

 remains of fish. 



The Fourth Field Meeting was held at Bridgend, on 

 Wednesday, 21st August, with the view, as set forth in the 

 programme of the day, of examining the beds at Sutton, 

 Southerndown, and Dunraven, the Brocastle and Ewenny beds 

 of the Lower Lias, and the relation of the latter formation to 

 the Carboniferous Limestone. 



The programme thus laid down was too extensive for one 

 day's work ; some of the members, therefore, including the 

 President, Messrs. Moore and Etheridge, and the Rev. W. S. 

 Symonds, proceeded to Bridgend on the previous day, and from 

 thence, under the guidance of Mr. C. Moore, visited the 

 sections at Ewenny, Brocastle, and Langan, at all of which the 

 Southerndown beds were observed in situ, and their position 



