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this intimate combination without any trace of fusion, that when 

 the last uplift of the Malvern chain took place, the ciystalline 

 rocks were cold and consolidated." A dinner concluded the day's 

 excursion, and our Treasurer in returning thanks for the members 

 of the Bath Club, acknowledged the kind reception they had 

 received, and hoped that an opportunity would be afforded them 

 of showing a similar attention to the Malvern and Woolhope Clubs 

 when they visited Bath, 



It now remains briefly to summarise our walks. My notes here, 

 Sir, are sadly deficient and meagre. One reason for this is owing 

 perhaps to the fact that Tuesday's weather has been more or less 

 uninviting. The month of April gives the record of one only from 

 Freshford to Farley Castle, by Iford bridge. It is worthy of note 

 that some of the members both saw and heard the nightingale on 

 the leafless boughs of one of the trees in the Court yard of the 

 Castle on that day, April 9. The inscription over the South porch 

 of the Church at Farley — 



+ 

 COVMIATHOC'EMPLVCRVCEGLO 

 RIFICANSMlEROrOSMVQGENVIT 

 XPMCOISERI^PCeFIATSSILVCD 

 caused discussion both as to the meaning and the date of the 

 lettering, which, of course, is much older than the present building. 

 On one of those foggy mornings ushering in a bright noon and 

 rainy afternoon in October, an expedition was made to the brick- 

 works at Shortwood, about a mile from the Mangotsfield Station. 

 After inspecting the ingenious machinery for rolling and powdering 

 the clay and the stamping it into moulds before insertion in the 

 ovens, the members proceeded to the excavations whence the New 

 red marl with its usual green streaks was conveyed in trucks 

 down an inclined plain and shot under the roUers. Having 

 satisfied themselves as to the great thickness of the Marls they 

 walked to Bitton and took the train thence to Bath. One of the few 

 fine days in that very wet month of October, tempted the members 

 out on the hills. Following the Roman road, which runs by Mr. 

 Broome's gate, they continued over Bannerdown, and struck the 

 Fosse road which they traversed to the Shirestoues ; these old 



