132 DEVONIAN. 



Church, and at Hope Farm, and Smuggler's Cove, west of Hope's 

 Nose. Among the fossils are Homalonotus elongatus, H. crassicauda, 

 H. Champernoivnei {Homalonotus beds), Hohpella ? Chonetcs sordida, 

 Spirifera cidtrijugata, Lepttcna laticosta, and some obscure Lamelli- 

 branchs. Mr. Champernowne has observed that " some Lower 

 Devonian beds are so like some Ludlow Rocks (only red-stained), 

 and with flakes of greenish clay within the gritty layers, as we 

 see in the Usk district with Holopellce and Chonetcs, as sorely to try 

 the faith of the most orthodox." ^ 



The Lincombe and Warberry Grits probably represent the 

 Hangman Grits of North Devon. 



Fig. i8.— Devonian Slate between Houghton 

 Week, Newton Abbot. 



(W. A. E. Ussher.) 



AND High 



The chief curves in the slates are due to contortion by faulting' and upheaval. The small 

 surface-curves are due to the intrusion of roots from above. On the right-hand side of 

 the section, there is a boss of eruptive rock.^ (See remarks ou ' Terminal curvature,' p. 13, 

 and sequel.) 



MIDDLE DEVONIAN. 



Lower Slates and Great Devon Limestone. 



Although these Slates as a mass chiefly underlie the Limestones, 

 yet they are intimately connected with them, and evidently replace 

 them laterally here and there, as near Abbots Kerswell and other 

 places. The Slates may be clearly traced beneath the Limestone 

 south-east of Daccombe, at Barton, Anstey's Cove, Wickaborough, 

 and other localities near Newton Abbot and Torquay. They consist 

 of bluish, purplish, and greenish slates, soft in the upper part, and 



1 Geol. Mag. 1881, pp. 487, 4S9 ; Dr. H. Woodward, ibid. 4 

 Tawney, Rep. Devon Assoc. 1870, p. 291 ; Holl, Q. J. xxiv. 428. 

 - W. A. E. Ussher, Q. J. xxxiv. 54. 



), 528; E. B. 



