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might be traced in the Conglomerate composed of many of the 
older rocks of that period which fringed the slopes of the hills, 
and in the planed down and levelled tops of the Limestone beds, 
and the infilling of the fissures in those beds by a deposit of the 
subsequent Liassic waters. Many other matters of detail were 
gone into, and various questions, showing that the members were 
quite alive to some of the difficulties of the science, had to be 
answered before Maesbury was left for Gurney Slade. On the 
way some good exposures of Limestone were visited, and hammers 
busily at work in detaching the corals and encrinital stems standing 
out sharply on the weathered faces of the rocks. The Gurney 
Slade Dyke was examined, and Mr, McMurtrie here shortly 
recapitulated what he had already given to the members at one 
of their afternoon meetings, and is printed in the ‘“‘ Proceedings ” 
recently published. The Secretary expressed a doubt as to the 
red band running down the dyke being New Red Sandstone as was 
therein stated, but the otherwise accuracy of the section given 
was undoubted. About this time of the day some refreshment 
seemed to be urgently needed by the party, and mine host of the 
Old Down Inn had provided a substantial cold lunch which was 
very welcome. After lunch the Rheetic section, near Lynch House, 
was visited, the Dolomitic Conglomerate followed to its junction 
with the New Red Marl and the Rheetics in the road section. 
Here a halt was called, and hammers at work again, disinterring 
the teeth and scales from the bone bed which here and there 
crops up in the bank. Thence a detour through a winding and 
pretty valley to the Emberrow water, passing on the way a 
swallet hole, down which a stream disappears through the 
cavernous recesses of the Limestone, to re-appear some distance 
below. The Millstone Grit was here sought for, and found 
just before reaching the water, and Mr. McMurtrie pointed out 
the spot where former trials for coal had been made. One 
conspicuously marked in the centre of the water by a small island 
with rushes growing on it, the other an adit driven into the bank 
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