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The somewhat monotonous flat between the Worle Station and 
the Priory was traversed in a conveyance which had been sent 
from Weston-super-Mare to meet the 10.23 a.m. train ; and nothing 
of any interest occurred on the way, save an occasional halt made 
to allow the botanists of the party to examine the marsh group of 
plants by the road-side. Arrived at the Farm house, the members 
proceeded to view the remains of the Priory consisting of a 
Conventual church, Refectory and Barn. The Tower, a fine 
Specimen of perpendicular work, was mounted, and the Secretary 
took this opportunity, whilst the members were recovering from 
the exhaustion of their ascent, to read a few notes which he had 
put together respecting the early foundation and subsequent 
history of the Priory, the best account of which is to be found 
in the'Som. Arch. and Nat, Hist. Soc. Proceedings for 1853, 
After payment of the usual visitors’ tax a traverse across the 
fields on the N.W. brought the members to a sheltered little 
cove, with its whitened beach of rolled limestone pebbles. The 
object of this detour was to inspect the trap rock which traverses 
the Limestone in various directions. The hammers of the 
geologists having been set to work, and specimens obtained, the 
Secretary took up the thread of his remarks on the Geology of 
the Nailsea Coal basin, and pointed out that this Carboniferous 
limestone, dipping away at a high angle to the S. and SE, 
was probably a continuation of the N.W, boundary of that basin 
on which they stood on their last excursion to Clevedon. On- 
a former occasion they had seen an exposure of trap on 
Broadfield down ;. they had now seen another below them. 
The question of the age of the igneous outburst was then 
_ discussed, and the Secretary thought that from the altered 
appearance of the Limestone in immediate contact with the trap, 
Some, if not all of the beds had been deposited previously to its 
intrusion. A pleasant and breezy walk on the down led them 
next along Swallow cliff to Sand point. Owing to the recent 
- drought and great heat the grass was much burnt up and yery 
