GEOLOGY OF THE QUANTOCKS. 99 
looking slate, opening with purple stains, and also some red 
purplish sandstones. The former have a chloritic appear- 
ance, though chlorite is not found, on analysis, to be pre- 
sent. It is ofan extremely indurated nature, and contains 
a large proportion of siliceous matter, the dip about 22 deg. 
too South and thick bedded. Along the newly-cut road 
from Will’s-neck to Fly Green are red and grey sandstones, 
but from the shallowness of the cutting no perfect dip 
could be observed. A mile or more west of Cockercombe, 
we find the slates laminated, and assuming a rich claret 
colour, but, to all appearance, without the substrata of 
sandstone, or of any organic remains. The slates of Asholt, 
Lower Asholt, Buncombe Hill, and Cothelstone, occupying 
a cross line south-east to south-west, all appear of the same 
character, viz., laminated, with slightly glossy separations, 
and of a reddish grey colour. At Asholt the dip is south- 
east, about 30 deg.; in the Western part this variety ap- 
pears to be non-fossiliferous, but at Buncombe Hill and in 
the direetion of Asholt fossil remains are to be found in 
abundance, as will presently appear. 
Beyond Buncombe Hill the banks by the roadside shew 
the red sandstone beds, without a trace of any organic re- 
mains. At Plainsfield, Mr. Williams met with brachio- 
poda and gasteropoda, and he further remarks that the Old 
Red here supplied him with a few fossils, as well as at Will’ s- 
neck. Mr. Pring says, “I have searched very carefully at 
two different times, and I failed to discover anything save 
a doubtful-looking pebble stone, with an apparent cast, and 
another with a faint trace of an Encrinite, and may not 
Mr. Williams’ Will’s-neck fossils be in the debris stones 
instead of in the rock ?” I leave the question for future de- 
cision ; I think, however, it is worth careful attention, and 
to those who may be inclined to become explorers I would 
