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beds 5b and 6 apparently absent. These suggestions 
concerning the equivalents of beds 5b, 6, and 7 in North- 
west Gloucestershire and Worcestershire do not, of 
course, lay claim to infallibility, since the portion of the 
Dunhampstead section under consideration is now ob- 
scured. However, there is little doubt that at Woodnorton 
we have a section at this horizon similar to that at Coomb 
Hill. It will be seen, then, that in Worcestershire, as in 
North-west Gloucestershire, “at this horizon [5 b, 6, and 
7| the deposits are not nearly so constant as_ those 
immediately sub- and super-jacent.” * 
The limestone (5b) is similar to a bed occupying the 
same stratigraphical position at Wainlode and Garden 
Cliffs. Of this stratum I did not detect any evidence in 
the cutting, but in a ploughed field to the west of the 
northern end of the canal-tunnel, numerous pieces were 
to be obtained from the surface, and yielded the fossils 
recorded in the section. Of the beds above 5 b, we have 
no details, excepting that “a considerable thickness of 
clayey beds ensues, and probably 30 or 40 feet of strata 
occur before we come to the lowest beds of the Lias.” ? 
This would mean that the deposits of the Upper Rhietic 
Stage were from 30 to 40 feet thick here. Although we 
know that the maximum thickness of the lower stage in 
Worcestershire obtains at this locality, and that it seems 
reasonable to suppose that the upper is similarly affected, 
still it is improbable that the latter attains the enormous— 
that is, for the Rhetic—thickness of 30 or 40 feet. In 
Strickland’s description mention is made of Lias limestone 
containing Saurian-remains.* In a quarry at Saleway these 
‘““Saurian-beds” are exposed, and Mr Knight, Goods 
Manager at Dunhampstead, showed me the head of an 
Ichthyosaurus and a coral obtained from this section. 
1 Proc. Cotteswold Club, Vol. xiv., p. 162. 2 Proc. Dudley and Midland Geol. Soc., 
Vol. iii., p. 123. 3 Memoirs, p. 137, 
