206 YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS AT HOLMFIRTH. 



lofty hill of Good Bent, and on the left and right of this hill 

 respectively were the romantic gorges of Hey Clough and Marsden 

 Clough, down which flowed the streams supplying the reservoir. It 

 seemed incredible that this quiet lake should once have been such 

 a terrible engine of destruction, but it was said that the embankment 

 was formerly eleven feet higher than it now is. The shales above 

 the bank of the reservoir were examined, and a thin seam of coal 

 was seen. At Good Bent is the Kinderscout Conglomerate. They 

 passed next on Gibriding Lane, and gradually ascended to Green 

 Gate, where they were at an elevation of 1,100 ft. On the way the 

 evidences of the fault which extends nearly from Meltham to 

 Holmebridge were pointed out ; a little to the east of Austonley the 

 top of the Kinderscout Grit is thrown against a sandstone of the 

 Middle Grits. A little detour was made from the road to visit 

 a quarry in which there is a thin seam of coal in the A sandstone of 

 the Middle Grits. Some small fossils, probably Stigmarian rootlets, 

 were here obtained by Mr. Spencer. It is known as the Upper 

 Meltham or White Rock coal. In the sandstone was noticed a large 

 concretion with concentric rings. 



From the summit of this quarry Mr. Field detailed the scenery 

 around, and at this point was the grandest and most expansive view 

 of the day. To the south were the wall-like heights of Holme Moss, 

 succeeded on the east by a splendid series of step-like escarpments. 

 On Snailsden Moss, near Cook's Study, was one formed by the 

 Second Grits or Flags, to which succeeded those formed by the Soft 

 Bed Flags, the Forty Yards or Loxley Edge Rock, the Eighty Yards 

 Rock, and the Elland Flag Rock or Green Moor Rock of the 

 Huddersfield district. Then the Grenoside Rock, on which the 

 erection known as Tinker's Folly is built, was pointed out ; also 

 the Rough Rock below Thurstonland. Turning round, the isolated 

 height of Castle Hill was very prominent, and West Nab also was well 

 seen. This lofty hill is capped by the Rough Rock, and, as Mr. Field 

 stated, there are some remarkable weathered masses of rock strewn 

 about, no doubt from landslips. The road to Holmfirth— having on 

 the right the gorge of Hart Hole Clough, cut into the shales by the 

 tiny beck — was a most agreeable incline, coming at the close of 

 the day, dropping from 1,050 ft. at the Ford to 460 ft. at Holmfirth. 



It was felt that a most successful excursion had been made, and 

 if sections had been few, yet the configuration of the country and 

 the succession of the beds had been ably described in the field, 

 and some remarkable examples of denudation pointed out. 



A vote of thanks to the chairman brought the proceedings to 

 a close. — E.R.W. 



Naturalist, 



