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occasion. Leaving the road at Swanswick the members crossed 
the fields to the reservoirs under Solsbury Hill. The largest was 
quite empty, the second one had a few feet only of water in it, 
and the lowest was about half full. Thence they crossed the 
main valley to St. Catherine’s Mill, where a temporary engine was 
in process of erection to pump the water from the mill-head into 
the main, seemingly a very doubtful if not hazardous expedient ; 
thence up the valley to the Oakford Springs, where covered tanks 
had been recently erected to catch the water for storage directly 
at its source, instead of allowing it to be exposed as heretofore to 
contamination in a muddy and sedgy bottom. The rams which 
supply Rock House on the heights above from the surplus water 
only, worked intermittently owing to the reduced supply. A stiff 
walk up the sides of the valley brought the party on to the Fosse 
road, which was followed by Bannerdown to Bath. 
January 13th, 1885.—The only other walk worthy of record 
was that to Murhill Quarry. Train was taken to Limpley Stoke, 
and before leaving the station the site of the recent bank-slip, 
carrying away a shed and killing six horses and two men sleeping 
in the loft, was visited ; four of the horses were still lying covered 
with the débris‘of the fallen shed, on the spot where death seems 
to have overtaken them instantaneously. Mr. Wickes, of Fresh- 
ford, met the members and took them over the bridge and across 
the fields on the right to the quarry on the top of the hill—a fine 
exposure of Great Oolite now unworked. The various beds from 
the “roof” upwards were pointed out, especially the peculiar-rotten 
marly bed immediately above the “roof” containing abundance 
of ostrea, and the coral bed under the hwmus—a bed which Mr. 
Wickes had lately been working and from which he had obtained 
many corais ; a corresponding bed bored by lithodomi exists on 
the opposite side of the valley, considered by the late Charles 
Moore to be a coral reef and a thin representative of the Forest 
Marble. A ruined cairn close at hand was mounted for the view, 
and the members returned along the edge of the escarpment, 
