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hills. In conclusion, Mr Lucy impressed upon those 

 present, that where gravel is found on isolated hills and 

 terraces corresponding in height, the level of the ground at 

 the time the gravel was deposited, was probably fairly con- 

 tinuous, and the valleys between them have been made 

 since. In fact the Severn valley is a valley of denudation 

 caused by water, frost, rain, and wind. 



The water is being tapped, or rather pumped, by the 

 Cilouccster Corporation, at a spot, half-a-mile from 

 Newent. The well, said Mr R. Read, the Gloucester 

 Corporation Surveyor, is situated in the New Red Series, 

 nearly mid-way between two parallel faults running north- 

 east and south-west with the syenite of the Malvern 

 Range, about seven miles to the north-east, and the 

 Silurian of May Hill three miles south-west. The west 

 fault is of great extent, and has the Keuper beds of the 

 New Red on the surface on its east side — in which the 

 well is sunk — and the Old Red on the surface on its west 

 side. All along the west fault, from Retford Bridge, over 

 the Leadon, on the north, down to Great Boulsdon, in the 

 south, small out-crops of coal are found, and some years 

 ago the Oxenhall Colliery shaft was sunk right on the 

 fault which yielded an abundance of water, but very little 

 coal. The results of the Corporation boring show that 

 the bottom Bunter beds were not completely pierced at 

 1,190 feet, and as these crop out on the surface with the 

 breccia or pebble beds of the Permian, at a distance of six 

 miles north-east, it is fair to assume that they are in a 

 wedge-shaped trough of the New Red, 1,200 feet deep at 

 the bore-hole, thinning out at six miles to the north-east, 

 near Bromsberrow, where the surface is some 200 feet 

 higher than the ground at the bore-hole, which is I02'5 

 feet above ordnance datum. The first 300 feet of the 

 bore-hole consists of beds of Conglomerates, Marls, and 

 Sandstones, but below this the whole of the beds are 

 Sandstones of varying hardness. The well section is 



