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Oolitic monolith. Whilst passing along the " Eidgway " several 

 indications of Trap were noticed in heaps of stone by the road 

 side. At Waterlip quarry, on the right, the Mountain limestone 

 has almost a vertical " dip." In a field near the East Cranmore 

 Tower, Mr. Moore standing on an outcrop of Trap running from 

 €ast to west, pointed out that this " aj)peared to be the very point 

 of upheaval where the mighty volcanic agencies which had dis- 

 turbed the whole of the range had burst forth." That this had 

 taken place at a remote pei-iod, and after the deposition of the 

 Coal measures, he endeavoured to prove from the fact that in the 

 neighbouring valley to the north, the older rock overlies the 

 more recent strata, the coal being worked beneath the Carboni- 

 ferous limestone, which Mr. Moore contended could only have 

 occurred from the Carboniferous limestone being upheaved by 

 volcanic agency, and doubled bjTck over the coal, the lava at the 

 same time bursting forth wherever a vent could be found. 



The Members were much indebted to the courtesy of Major 

 Paget, ^I.P., who opened his tower for inspection ; to Mr. Green, 

 who provided a most welcome lunch in the shades of Cranmore 

 Wood; and also to the Eev. J. S. Horner, who allowed the 

 Members to walk through his finely timbered and romantic Park, 

 And provided a cold collation for them at the Rectory. 



The Third Excursion on the 21st of June, to Avebury (from 

 the notes kindly supplied to the Secretary, who was unable to be 

 present, by one of the Members), appears to have been a pleasant 

 one. There was an early start from the Bath Station, at 8.30, to 

 Calne. The architecture of the well-restored church was explained 

 by the incumbent, and the tablet to the memory of a King of the 

 Gipsies pointed out on the outside of the south porch. Cherhill 

 and Oldbury Camp were visited under the guidance of the Revds. 

 Penderleath and Inman, on the way to Avebury ; at the latter 

 place the church was shown by the incumbent, and the font, 

 supposed to be one of the oldest in the kingdom ; a short account 

 of the megaUthic structure was also given by the same gentleman ; 



