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the church plate, of old date, simple and plain. In the parlour 
were two small medieval pictures of subjects quaint and 
mystical, which fairly puzzled the antiquaries. 
Arrived at the foot of Alderton hill the party toiled up the 
slopes rendered wet, muddy and slippery by the late rains, to 
the quarry, the examination of which was the object of their 
pilgrimage; which on their arrival proved to be half full of 
water; but by the aid of a diagram, the joint work of the Rev. 
Dr. Smyrue and Mr. Lucy, the section was made plain. It 
was as follows :— 
ft. i 
1. Surface soil Be re | 
2. Buff and Grey Clays veanehowtty He wee) 10 
8. Paper Shales of “ Communis” Beds 
Course of Limestone ; 
“Fish Bed” Geodes 
Fish Scales and Crustacea 
OoB 
Zone of “ Am. Communis,” 25 0 
or 
“ Bifrons” Zone 
Shales 
laminated and bituminous Bee 
4, “Teptena Clays” ... ate Loe wee pet 406 
resting on 
5. Indurated Rock of 
“ Spinatus” Zone ... 
Divisional line of 
Upper and Middle Lias ... 
The thickness of the “‘ Spinatus” Beds caidetentitn Gd 
All these beds are rich in characteristic Fossils, but the 
bottom of the quarry was so full of water that the line of 
separation between the Upper and Middle Lias was covered, 
and less than 30 feet of the Upper Shales were alone visible. 
To atone for this deficiency, it chanced that large stacks of 
Middle Lias stone were available for examination, supplying an 
ample store of the very rock which was submerged, namely 
that of the “Margaritatus Zone,” with Fossils in profusion. 
Here the Rev. Dr. Suyrue explained the section, and pointed 
out the chief features, touching on the physical causes that 
had planed off the Oolite from Churchdown and from Alderton, 
and had left the underlying deposit of Upper Lias. He noticed 
