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that if Coal measures exist immediately to the south of the Mendipa 

 they will hardly have lost the productive character which they 

 exhibit immediately to the north of those hills. It'is not unlikely 

 that the southern margin of this supposed basin may show a 

 transition towards the Culm measures of Devon, but it is equally 

 probable that its northern margin adjoining the Mendips may 

 exhibit the true productive character. The third objection relating 

 to the thickness of the secondary rooks is one on which Mr. Charles 

 Moore has ably written, and on which he has collected much useful 

 information, but in his estimate he confessedly takes "the greatest 

 thickness of secondary strata without the basin" as his guide, so 

 that it is probably over rather than under the mark, and even thia 

 estimate does not place the Coal measures beyond workable depth. 



Another coal area of less extent has within the last year or two 

 been discovered under the Severn, between New Passage and 

 Portskewit, but time will not permit me to describe this, and I 

 would only in conclusion express the hope that the facts I have 

 stated as to the knoAvn and probable coal areas of the south of 

 England will make us feel more strongly than ever the importance 

 of our national resources. 



Bells of Somerset. By Rev. W. S. Shaw, M.A. Read Feb. 12, 1873. 



Our worthy Secretary suggested to me the title of the Bells of 

 Somerset for the Paper which I have the privilege of laying before 

 you this evening. I feel, however, in adopting it somewhat as if 

 I were trespassing. Probably most of you are aware that Mr. 

 EUacombe, of Clyst St. George, is engaged upon a work in which 

 a full account will be given of all the Somersetshire bells. What 

 knowledge I may have picked up with regard to bells has been 

 largely due to excursions I have made to some town or other, an 

 account of which Mr. EUacombe wished to obtain. You must 

 therefore understand the title of the Paper to imply that my 

 remarks will be confined to Somersetshire bells, and those only to 

 a very limited extent. 



