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Silurian or Wenlock Shale, lying at an angle of 40 degrees. 
Details of these borings will be found elsewhere, and in 
connexion with them the writer would ask, whether in the 
Silurian of Ware we may not recognise an eastern extension of 
the Silurian of Tortworth, and in the Devonian of Meux’s 
brewery a continuation of the Mendip anticlinal, although so 
many miles of unproved country lie between. It would certainly 
be interesting to see the result of a boring midway between 
London and Ware, where, if the parallel held good, a counterpart 
of the Somersetshire Coal field might possibly be found, but it is 
just a question whether the Carboniferous belt, if such exists in 
the south-east of England, should not be sought for farther south. 
Although in the district extending from Nunney through 
Frome to Oldford, the older rocks present a very small superficial 
area, only coming to the surface here and there at intervals, in 
belts, where ravines have cut through the Secondary rocks ; the 
overlying strata seem to be very superficial, and it is probable 
that there is a large area around Frome, beneath which the Old 
Red Sandstone and Mountain Limestone may be expected to lie 
at no great depth. 
ROAD SECTIONS AT SPRING GARDENS NEAR FROME. 
In the same locality there is a recent exposure of the Secondary 
beds, which has not hitherto received special notice. The 
Radstock branch of the Great Western railway formerly crossed 
the roads near Spring Gardens on the level; but within the last 
two years they have been carried under the railway by means of 
deep cuttings, affording good sections of the surface rocks, which 
here present conditions which the writer was unable at first to 
recognise. 
The locality in question is exactly where, according to the 
Ordnance maps, the Fuller’s Earth crops out on the top of the 
Inferior Oolite, and where the latter rock might naturally have 
