GEOLOGY OF THE QUANTOCKS. 95 
On the Geology af the Quantucke. 
BY MR. J. H. PAYNE. 
HE Quantock Hills form part of the extensive series 
T of Schistose Rocks, so well known as occupying a 
very extended area in the counties of Devon and Corn- 
wall, as well the extreme north-west of the county of 
Somerset, separated, however, from the main body of these 
rocks by a fertile valley. The range is about twelve miles 
long, by four to six miles broad, extending in a direction 
from north-west to south-east. The water-shed it is very 
diffieult rightly to determine, there being no river or 
stream of any size. Each little valley seems to claim for 
itself the right to drain its own domain. We may describe 
it, however, as tending prineipally southward. Three prin- 
cipal heights may be noted, viz., Will’s-neck, 1,270 feet; 
Cothelstone, 1,066 feet; and Douseboro or Danesborough, 
1,022 feet, above low water mark. The Rev. David 
Williams, in a paper read before the British Association,* 
divided the whole of these rocks of the West of England 
* I believe in 1836, but, it does not appear in their transactions, 
