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given by Messrs Bristow and Etheridge," and the latter 
author observed,” “the equivalent of this bed |[z.e., the 
Estheria-bed at Garden Cliff], and its Astherz@ in cream- 
coloured marl, 4 inches thick, and other beds above, I 
observed last summer [1864], when constructing my 
section at Coombe Hill, the Estheria marl there. resting 
upon 15 feet of dark brown shales, doth of which seem to 
have escaped the observations of former investigators, 
and, which adds considerable interest to the Coomb Hill 
Section.” 
Mr H. B. Woodward notes that “at Strensham, pain 
Hill, and Wainlode, the Insect-limestone comes beneath 
the Ostrea-beds, and so far as can be judged from the 
succession of the strata, subject as they are to local modi- 
fications, the bands at these localities belong rather to the 
Rhetic Beds than to the Lower Lias. The MJonoézs-bed 
at Garden Cliff appears to be on the same stratigraphical 
horizon.” 
6.—Detatled Description of the Section. 
(Table II. and Fig. 3.) 
A comparison of the Coomb Hill and Wainlode Cliff 
sections shows a marked similarity in palzontological and 
stratigraphical details. When unable to examine some of 
the beds zz seu, as in the case of beds 4 to 1, I have 
adhered to the section recorded by Strickland, since he 
observed it “during the lowering of the road,” while 
Etheridge constructed his in 1864, about thirteen years 
later: moreover the former. approximates more closely 
with that exposed at Wainlode. 
1 Vertical Sections, Geol. Sury., Sheet 47, No. 7 (1873.) 
2 Proc. Cotteswold Club, Vol. iii. (1865), p. 227. ; re 
3 Mem, Geol. Surv., “ Jurassic Rocks of Britain,” Vol. iii. (1893), pp. 145, 146. 
