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my expectation, we found to be 14° N. and N.W. A careful 

 search failed to reveal any fossils. About 100 yards higher up and 

 on the same side a " scree" showed blocks of somewhat coai'ser- 

 grained olive-coloured and purple-patched yellow sandstones. 

 Still higher up, at the distance of 100 yards, a section exposed 

 mottled purple softer sandstone, with a hard band at the base. 

 The dip of the beds corresponded with that of the lower quany. 

 This, too, was unfossiliferous. On the top of the hills, and 

 especially in the vicinity of Danesborough Camp, blocks of a 

 coarse conglomerate were lying about wearing the character of 

 millstone grit. The absence of any sections here prevented us 

 from ascertaining whether these blocks existed in situ ; there 

 could not, however, be any reasonable doubt of it. 



Yet another day's examination of the N. end must be recorded. 

 On a dripping wet day, of the many wet days this autujmn, in 

 October, I took the train to Williton, and walked thence along 

 the New red sandstone valley to St. Audries, for the purpose of 

 examining the basement beds if possible. At a small road side 

 section before reaching Perry quarry, the hard compact close- 

 grained silicious beds dip 25° N.E. by E. They are grey, slightly 

 micaceous, and streaked with red. Linear impressions occur 

 most probably those of plants. A little further on at Perry 

 quarry, the same sort of compact silicious beds occur at the 

 base dipping at about the same angle 30° N.E. by N., as these 

 proceed upwards they became more fissile and micaceous, with 

 .partings of shale. A most interesting case of weathering, looking 

 at first sight almost like ice marking, occurs here at the top of the 

 quarry in a series of grooves parallel with the bedding, and running 

 at right angles to the cleavage. About 100 yards beyond the 12th 

 mile stone is a bank section where the road is cut through a wood. 

 The beds here dip about 30° N. E., and consist of hard reddish 

 sandstone at the base, becoming very fissile and micaceous towards 

 the top, with black specks of some mineral, probably iron, scattered 

 about. These appeared unfossiliferous. On my return I visited a 

 quarry to the S.E. of the church at St. Audries, at the side of 

 the Parsonage House. The spot is marked by the word " or" in 

 the Ordnance Map owing to the shivery nature of the greenish 



