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beds, and capped by the ; freestones of the Inferior Oolite — the 

 beds which were worked for building purposes in this neighbour- 

 hood as those of the Great Oolite -w^ere at Bath. The term Lias 

 Sands gave an opportunity to the Secretary of the Bath Field 

 Club to suggest tha.t the term used by Professor Phillips should 

 be adopted for this debatable ground, as the horizon was an 

 intermediate one, in which the dying out of the old fauna and the 

 coming in of a new were the conditions. He thought both Liassic 

 and Oolitic partisans, might acknowledge it a neutral territory by 

 the name of Midford Sands, a name also used by, and one recaUing 

 the labours of, WUliain Smith. A diligent search in the adjoining 

 beds only revealed; a Rhynconella -cynocephala or two, a Gervillia 

 proelonga, Tereh-atuJf, punctata, and majij Belemnites, the sections 

 here being poor in fossils compared with those of Frocester Hill, 

 &c., Mr. Lycett in his Memoirs on the Cotteswolds gives the 

 Haresfield section thus in descending order : — 



FT. IN. 



Freestone forming summit 



Ferruginous concretionary marl . ... ... ... 1 6 



Do. brown hard sandstone ... ... 8 



Oolitic ferruginous bed ... ... ... ••• 2 6 



Brown ferruginous bed with a few Belemnites and 



Terebratulae... ... ... ... ... 1 o 



Cynocephala layei^of red marl ... ... •• 2 



Ammonitebed- .•.'. ' - ... - - - ..: '- i-v.. - 1 2 



Sands concretionary at top -ii q.Ij.^.'j .^li&fil.ir,u-ii ^.... J; 

 From this spot the hUl was crossed to a remarkable section on 

 the north-east slope, where below the Sands a gravel pit has been 

 worked in the slope oif the hill to the depth of about twenty feet. 

 The gravel consists of fine subangular and rounded .Qolitig dAkri^, 

 evidently deposited in its present. positiojt by gome watery agencjj 

 as it is banded by alternate horizontal fine and coarse; bands gif 

 gravel, the coarser bands being much less thick than the finer 

 i)ed%;. thougL nearly horizontal, here and there a tendenpy to.dip 

 tos^ards the hill may be observed. The height above sea-level is 



