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visited by storms, varj'ing in degree of force, from what is usually 

 called a gale, to a hurricane almost irresistible in violence."* 



With this knowledge of what we may expect from year to year, 

 derived from so high an authority, we must take warning, and 

 watch, and wait patiently till science is ready to reveal to us what 

 is still wanting to enable us to predict these storms -snth certainty. 

 Were such a storm as that of 1703 to burst upon us again, we 

 should not, perhaps, suffer to the same extent our forefathers did. 

 We liave, as Admiral Fitzroy remarks, " better buildings, better 

 ships, and more precautions ;" we " understand the laws of 

 storms" better. But wo can never hope to disarm the tempest 

 itself. And therefore it is that we must look to science to fore- 

 Avarn us of its approach. Nor, it is believed, shall we look in 

 vain. The future is full of promise. Each j-ear science is widen- 

 ing its field of research, and adding to its possessions. It knows 

 no limit to further advances but what is imposed by physical 

 impossibility. 



Notes on an Oolitk Quarry at Bathfonl. By Eev. H. H. WiNWOOD, 

 M.A., F.G.S. 



(Read January 16, 1878.^ 



The object of my short communication this evening is to call 

 your attention to the singiUar position of a mass of rolled flints in 

 one of the Oolitic quarries in oxu' neighbourhood. During a very 

 pleasant visit paid to Bathford in the early part of last year Capt. 

 Sainsbury called our attention to these flints in a cpiarry on the 

 left-hand side of the road leading from Monkton Farley to 

 Bathford, and just below the plantation of fir trees fringing 

 Farley Down. At the first glance anyone not quite an fait with 

 the singular freaks of Geology would bo struck with the apparently 

 extraordinary fact of a layer of flints interstratified between two 

 beds of Oolite ; such indeed might well be the first impression. 



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