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dipping away from it on each side as slates from the ridge of a roof. 
There was also another similarity, the common occurrence of Trap in both, 
Our Member, Mr. Charles Moore, considered the ‘ Basaltic dyke’ which he 
had discovered running across the Mendips as the agent of the local dis- 
turbance there ; but he (the Secretary), whatever might have been the 
case in that latter range of hills, could not hold the opinion that the up- 
heaval of the mass on which they then stood was the result of the outburst 
of the igneous rock they had visited in the morning, but that it was due 
to other causes. Some of these causes were then alluded to, and as a 
matter of course the much disputed origin of ravines came in for discussion = 
the Secretary inclining to uphold the more modern theories; the Vice- 
President holding more with the Ancients and attributing the hollowing 
out of this and such like places to the sudden upheaval of the land from a 
primeval Ocean, and the consequent rush of waters from the surface, 
excavating and tearing down the rocks during its progress. 
The SECRETARY having thanked the Members for their patient 
attention, the walk was resumed still up the Combe, which nearing 
the summit of the Down began now to lose its wildness, and 
presented the form more of a water course than a ravine, until 
the Darlington Arms, at Redhill, received its hungry guests not 
at all unwilling to do ample justice to the good and plain fare 
placed before them. After lunch Mr. Scarth read a paper on the 
Tumulus at Nempnett now destroyed. (Vide p. 20.) 
The SECRETARY, in returning thanks to Mr. Scarth for his 
paper, took the opportunity of assuring the Vice-President and 
Members that their representation to the authorities of the 
Cotteswold Club respecting the need of arresting the destruction 
of the Uley Tumulus had been attended with the happiest result, 
for at the annual meeting of the latter Club he was gratified to 
hear the president, Sir W. Guise, state in his address that due 
attention had been paid to the representation of the Bath Field 
Club, and that the necessary repairs had been carried out. As 
time was on the wing the programme for the day was necessarily 
shortened, and the visit to the site of the Nempnett Tumulus post- 
poned. The pretty little Church of Butcombe, however, was 
visited, some of the Members walking across the fields to it under 
