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hospitably received by the vicar of Burrington, the Rey. W. B. de 
Moleyns, who had generously provided refreshments for the party. 
Having admired the picturesque and beautiful grounds of the 
parsonage where the party seemed disposed to linger long, and 
examined the Church with its beautiful perpendicular stair turret 
and the carvings on the shields designed as supports for the 
timber roof of the side aisles (which roof, alas, only now exists 
over the two most eastern portions, having in years past been 
superseded by a plain ceiling of lath and plaster), the party 
proceeded up the combe. This beautiful gorge in the Mendip 
reaching for nearly a mile and winding in an oblique direction, 
exhibits the Limestone strata dipping almost perpendicularly. In 
passing up the combe, the opening of which is crowned by a small 
camp which seems in Roman times to have protected this pass, the 
site of no less than four caverns in the Limestone rock were pointed 
out. The names of these, all of which have been examined and 
described by Prof. Dawkins and Mr. Sandford, are Aveline’s hole, 
Whitcombe’s hole, Plumley’s den, and Goatchurch cavern. In the 
absence of the Secretary of the society (who usually undertakes 
the geology of the district over which the Club travels), a few 
words were said by the Vice-President on their contents and the 
remains found in them. The party also witnessed the obstruction 
formed in the combe by a sudden downfall of rain in the autumn 
of 1871, when, by the accumulated force of the water descending 
from one of the lateral valleys, the road had been choked and 
covered with a mass of débris which required severel days’ labour 
and much cartage to remove. 
The party soon found themselves on the summit of Mendip, 
where the view stretches from the Channel and the mountains 
of Wales eastward to the Cotteswold hills, and to the high land 
over Bath and Bathford. Here a brief account was given of the 
geological strata which had been traversed, and the party passed 
on in the direction of Charterhouse ; before descending the hill to 
the smelting mill they paused to examine the Roman Amphitheatre 
