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red colour as the other sandstones, and slightly effervescing when 

 touched with muriatic acid. Though a mantle of new red covers 

 up the intervening distance between the two sections, yet we may 

 naturally conclude that these limestone bands come in above the 

 sandstones at Alfoxden and Holford, and belong to a higher 

 horizon, corresponding in time with the calcareous bands or 

 lenticular masses which were formed in the North Devon area, and 

 follow the " Hangman grits " in geological succession. 



Mr. Etheridge having examined the fossils has since kindly 

 forwarded to me the following list : — 



Favodtes cervicornis (olim polymoTyha). 



Petraia celtica. (?) 



Atrypa desquamata (?) 



Tentaculites. 



Fenestella plebeia. 



A ctinocrinus. 



Plant remains (?) 

 Not a very large list, but sufficient to determine that they 

 " belong to the Middle Devonian sandstones on the same horizon 

 as Hangman and all the country from Ilfracombe to North 

 Petherton." 



So far then for the beds which flank the N. E. side of the 

 Quantock Hills. My pleasant stay at Woodlands having drawn to 

 a close, I was unable to make a traverse across the hills, as was my 

 intention, for the purpose of correlating these beds with those on 

 the W. flanks. An opportunity, however, occurred soon after, and, 

 in company with my friend Mr. Boyd Dawkins, I crossed over from 

 Crowcombe to Danesborough and examined all the sections that 

 were exposed with the following result : — After leaving the pretty 

 church of Crowcombe on the left hand, which, together with the 

 village, was all en fete in expectation of laying the foundation stone 

 of the new school, we ascended a lane to S. of the church, and a 

 little distance up on the right hand, at the point where the heath- 

 clad down joins the cultivated land, is a quarry on the N. W. slope 

 of " Fire Beacon" hill, composed of gi'ey and olive-grey close-grained 

 sandstone, much cleaved and broken up into cuboidal masses. 

 The dip of the beds here, taken by prismatic compass, contrary to 



