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wide nostrils. The character was so noticeaJDle and so 

 similar in all cases that I asked if it was a family group ; 

 but it was not, it was a group of school children with 

 their teachers. So this facial character seems to be a 

 racial peculiarity of the district. 



The next day our joint tour was brought to a sudden 

 termination. Owing to a collision with poultry, my wife 

 had a severe fall, which necessitated her conveyance to 

 the house of the friends we were travelling to visit. 



Their house is situated near Lichfield, in the valley of 

 the Tame, not far from its junction with the Trent. The 

 width and remarkable flatness of this valley is noticeable ; 

 the latter feature seems to be due to a filling up with 

 redeposited material. I gather from H. B. Woodward's 

 ' Geology of England and Wales,' that the redeposited 

 material in the Trent valley can be divided into eight 

 beds, laid down during three periods of the Pleistocene ; 

 that Boulder clay is a great feature connected with 

 Glaciers from the Pennine range ; also that there is much 

 chalky material in the Boulder clay derived from Glacial 

 denudation of the Yorkshire wolds. 



However, I had no time for exploration. In order to 

 attend the meeting of the Club, near Cheltenham, on July 

 23rd, it was necessary for me to start the day after our 

 arrival, July 22nd, leaving my wife to the kind nursing of 

 our friends. 



I passed through Tamworth, Coleshill, Kenilworth, 

 Warwick, Stratford-on-Avon, and Evesham to Chelten- 

 ham — a ride of about 75 miles. A feature of this ride 

 was that though I passed over the watershed of central 

 England — between the basins of the Trent and Severn — 

 yet I did not traverse any particularly high ground. This 

 would mean that the drainage equilibrium between the 

 Trent and the Severn is more nearly established than 

 between the Severn and the Thames. 



