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The local newspapers having lately contained a state- 
ment that valuable beds of stone, equalling, according to 
the account, the oolite of Caen, in Normandy, had been 
found at Dundry, near Bristol, and knowing that it had 
long deservedly held a high position as a rich geological 
locality, I felt anxious to pay it a visit. I the more desired 
this, as I had seen, when examining the interesting collec- 
tion at the Bristol Institution, specimens whose specific 
forms were familiar to me, labelled as from the inferior 
oolite of Dundry, but which I had previously believed to 
be characteristic of the middle lias. These beds have, 
until lately, been confounded with the inferior oolite, 
but are situated between the latter formation and 
the lower lias, and I therefore hoped on the escarpment 
of the hillleading up to Dundry, I should find some sec- 
tions, shewing the beds intervening between the lower lias 
and the Dundry oolite, which would be the position of my 
old familiar beds at Ilminster, from whence these specimens 
might have come ; but after a careful examination no trace 
of them could be found. It is more than probable the 
speeimens to which I refer were from the middle lias of 
some other locality, associated by mistake with those of 
the inferior oolite. 
In proceeding from Bristol t0 Dundry, the new red 
sandstone is first passed, a good section of which may be 
observed at Bedminster, in a deep cutting of the Great 
Western Railway. On the side of the road ascending to 
Bedminster Down, a junction is seen of the marls of the 
new red sandstone with the clays ofthe lower lias, and in a 
quarry higher up the road appear the lowest beds of the 
lias, known as the white lias. In this section occurs a 
stratum called Cotham marble or landscape stone. From 
this point until the base of Dundry hill is reached, sections 
