PROCEEDINGS OF THE COTTESWOLD CLUB 23 



On arriving at Chepstow some of the members returned, 

 hut the majority accepted a kind invitation to tea at Pen 

 Moel, where Mrs Price had various fossils from the great 

 quarry set out for inspection below her house. The stay 

 here would have been most willingly prolonged had time 

 permitted, and with an expression of hearty thanks to Mrs 

 Price for her hos[)itality, and with a graceful response on 

 her part and a hope that in the next season the Club 

 would pay a longer visit, the party reluctantly wended 

 their way to the station at Chepstow, and trained home. 



The fourth and last Meeting of the Club was held on 

 Tuesday, August 20th, and the members had the good 

 fortune to l^e accompanied by their old and able associates 

 Professor R. Etheridge, F.R.S., and Mr W. C. Lucy. 

 Driving from Gloucester, the party first went to the site 

 of the new Gloucester Waterworks at Newent, which was 

 visited bv the Club about two years ago. Here Mr Lucv 

 gave an interesting sketch of the distribution of the 

 northern drift in the district, and added some generalisa- 

 tions upon the character of the drift period. 



Tracing the drift on the route the party had driven from 

 Gloucester, Mr Lucy said that after ])assing Over Bridge, 

 it occurs at Elmore, Hempsted, and Lassington. At the 

 Pinetum, at Highnam, is a thick bed of sand ; and near to 

 Highnam Court, a gravel [)it of thirteen feet deep, 

 containing pebbles of considerable size, with syenite, 

 chalk Hipts, and what is remarkable, some oolite, having 

 the appearance of being brought there by a strong eddy, 

 indicating a time before the present river was formed, and 

 when the drainage of the country was probably different 

 from what it is now. Maisemore and Woolridge are 

 cap])ed with drift, and at Collen Park it is thicker still. 

 But bv far the most instructive example of glacial drift — 

 and this was probably re-deposited — is at Limbury, an 

 isolated hill quite flat at the top, and covering ten acres. 

 A pit, nine feet deep, contains Silurian blocks, probably 



