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flanked the Mendips and Broadfield Down, and a patch of which 

 they examined on their way up this morning, was nothing more 

 than an old water beach composed of the pebbles of the rocks on 

 which it rested, cemented together by a matrix of carbonate of 

 lime and carbonate of magnesia, and abounding in metalliferous 

 veins and pockets. In conclusion the Secretary said that it was 

 his intention, had time permitted, to have visited and given these 

 notes from one of the Trap bosses which crop out upon the Down, 

 whence the Vale of Wrington might have been seen in all its 

 fertility, a fertility and peacefulness which the necessities of 

 advancing civilization might possibly some day interfere with, for 

 there was every reason for supposing that coal might be won 

 beneath those rich plains which stretched away to the Mendips, 

 and the clank of the engine would then be heard in place of the 

 whistle of the ploughboy and the bleating of the sheep. Abxit 

 omen /" The notes were finished, and a rapid walk down the south 

 slope of the anticlinal soon brought the members to Wrington, not 

 before the rector of the parish had, with fond admiration, pointed 

 out at every fa vo arable spot the pretty j^eeps through the trees of 

 the fine chm-ch tower, a tower to which there is hardly a superior 

 in England. A glimpse at the rectory — which, if a perfect cube 

 is to be admired, may certainly come in for its share of admiration, — 

 and the members found themselves in the interior of the well- 

 restored church listening to Mr. Scarth's notes thereon, of which 

 the following is a summary : — The Church of Wrington, of which 

 the chancel is the most ancient part and of the Decorated period, 

 is dedicated to All Saints. The side aisles continue the length of 

 one bay beyond the nave, and are of the same length as the 

 chancel, thus forming two chantry chapels, that of St. Mary on the 

 north, and probably that of St. Joseph on the south. A fine rood 

 screen of oak and of elegant work of the late Perpendicular period 

 extends right across the Church. It is surmounted by an 

 elaborately carved cornice which once supported a rood loft, the 

 brackets of which still remain. The traceiy in the windows, of 

 Perpendicular date, has a peculiarity in the head lights exactly 

 resembling that in the Church of St. Mary RedclifF, Bristol 

 Previously to 1859 there was scarcely any stained glass in the 



