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determined, but the purple beds, against which the New Red 
Rocks abut, furnished no fossils whereby to determine their 
status. Ankerdine Hill was then ascended: the weather was 
most propitious, gleams of sunshine lighting up first one point 
of scenery, then another, as Mr. Symonps pointed out and 
described localities remarkable either for historic interest or 
geologic record... Northwards‘rose the grand old Malverns, 
famed for their ancient rocks and for the evidence they afford 
of occupation by pre-historic man. The wooded country to the 
north-west was that of the tradition of St. Karaerive and her 
maid Maset, fleeing from their pursuers to Ledbury, and the 
miraculously preserved footsteps of their steeds, still to be seen 
in the Old Red Sandstone of the Sapey brook.’'To the north- 
west rose the Titterstone Clee, at the base: of which lies 
Cleobury Mortimer, the birth-place of Roserr Lanenann, 
who wrote the “Vision of Prers Provenman,” in the days of 
Wicxuirre, like him exposing the vices of the times. Abberley 
Hills lay due north—Silurian rock masses elevated nearly 1000 
feet above the sea. They were once occupied by King Hunry 
the Fourth, 'a tyrant who began his reign by the murder of his 
cousin, RicHarp the Second, and was the first to establish torture 
and death in his dominions for religious differences. He and 
Archbishop ArunDE burnt Sawrre, in 1401, an example which 
succeeding kings and priests have not been slow to follow. When 
Henry the Fourth was on Abberley, Owen Gienpwe with his 
Welshmen and French allies occupied Woodbury Camp oppo- 
site, an ancient British stronghold. In this neighbourhood, 
between Ankerdine and Ridge Hill, is a singular depression, 
where coal shales occur, between Old Red Sandstone and 
Permian “breccias.” To the north-east rose the Clent Hills, 
and they, too, have their sections of Triassic rocks and Permian. 
At Hagley was the home of Lyrrenron, while at Hales Owen 
beyond was that of SHenstone. On Permian rock, too, stood 
the ancient church of St. Knnuxm, who was niurdered through 
the devices of his false sister QuenpRED. The vale of Worcester 
eastward was even brighter in sunshine than the western side, 
the Lickey rose on the horizon, and even Edgehill was 
