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Westminster Abbey. Thomas Moore, the poet, lies buried 

 with other members of his family in a vault in the church- 

 yard, and Sloperton Cottage, where he lived for 40 years and 

 died, is only a short distance from the Church. A curious 

 old timber house exists in the village, the floors of which are 

 said to have been made out of the timbers of the ancient 

 church roof The Members having partaken of lunch, at the 

 kind invitation of the Vicar, the Rev. E. B. Edgell, were 

 conducted to Spy Pai-k, and saw the new house in course 

 of erection by Colonel Spicer ; the old house of which 

 Dingley gives a sketch is stiU standing. Exit from the 

 Park to the church built by Capt. Gladstone was made 

 through a very fine gateway, defaced by some modern 

 constructions added for strength ; thence over the brow 

 of the hill, which commands a noble view with Lacock 

 Abbey in the foreground, to Corsham, and by train to 

 Bath. 



On September 9th the Members joined the Geological 

 Section of the Bristol Naturalists' Society in a Walk from 

 Tiimpley Stoke to examine the now overgrown section of 

 upper lias opposite Dundas. A single bed of upper lias 

 about one foot thick, with an intervening band of gray clay, 

 immediately underlies the sands of the inferior oolite, which 

 here thin out to some 20 feet merely. Some very good 

 specimens of the characteristic fossil, the Lingula Beanii, 

 were found in the marlstones below, portions of a crustacean, 

 together with the Ammonites Walcotii. 



On the 23rd of the same month another pleasant Walk was 

 taken with the same Society from Bathford to the oolitic 

 quarries on Farley Down, and many good specimens 

 collected. A curious recent conglomerate containing flints 

 in a matrix of lime was pointed out by the Secretary, This 

 recent deposit was evidently caused by an infiltration of 

 carbonate of lime forming a cementing matrix for the flints. 



