84 KEPoiiT — 1875. 



its southern terminatioa in the fine cliff forming the northern boundary of 

 (loodrington Sands, Torbay, about 2 miles in a straight line north-east 

 from Waddoton ; but several " outliers " exist to the south aud west of that 

 point, aud some of them far removed from it — namely, between Goodrington 

 Sands and Saltern Cove, between Saltern Cove and Broad Sands, two very 

 small masses near the top of the cliff between lierry Head aud Mudstono 

 Bay, at the village of Slaptou on the shore of Start Bay, at Thurlestone in 

 Bigbury Bay, and near Cawsand in Plymouth Sound. If these numerous 

 outliers on all sides of Waddeton be taken as evidence of the denudation of 

 a great volume of New Bed rocks in the south and west of Devon (and on this 

 there will probably be little hesitation), it is possible that the blocks vinder 

 notice may be, not travelled masses, but remnants in situ of New Bed beds 

 which once covered the older formations now exclusively occupying the 

 district. It is no doubt true that the form they now bear is not inconsistent 

 with transportation ; and it is equally true that the waves, which possibly 

 did the work of denudation, may have left them in situ and would have 

 reduced them to the shape they now have. 



2nd. Neither in the New Bed Sandstone cliffs forming almost the entire 

 coast of South-eastern Devon from Torbay to the confines of Dorsetshire, nor 

 in any of the outliers already mentioned, with the exception of the two small 

 masses near Berry Head, is there any sandstone having a hardness at all 

 approaching that of the Waddeton boulders. The blocks, therefore, if they 

 Jiave travelled, and if their parent beds must be pointed out, certainly connect 

 themselves with the Berry-Head outliers, upwards of 4 miles off as the crow 

 flies, to the exclusion of all other sources, rinless, indeed, they are fragments 

 of certain weU-knowu dykes to be briefly described immediate^. Boulders 

 similar to those at "Waddeton are by no means rare on the Berry-Head 

 plateau ; and a large subangular mass of the same material lies at the base of 

 the raised beach between Berry Head and Berry-Head House. 



The Devonian Limestone, forming the southern shore of Torbay, is tra- 

 versed by almost vertical dykes of New lied Sandstone, M'hich form two 

 systems, one having a direction which may be conveniently termed east and 

 west, whilst the other runs from north to south. The east and Avcst system 

 is well exposed at intervals from Berry Head to the railway-cutting at the 

 southern end of the viaduct crossing Broad Sands, about 1-5 mile east of 

 Waddeton. This body of limestone extends to Waddeton, where it termi- 

 nates. It is extensively quarried at Galmpton Creek, on the right bank of 

 the Dart ; but there are no traces there of such Eed Sandstone dykes as have 

 been already described. 



3rd. Tlie fact that the boulders at the Churston station, on the tableland 

 known as Galmpton Common, were completely buried in the soil, may be 

 taken as evidence that a considerable time has elapsed since they were lodged 

 there ; and this is borne out by the more or less corresponding condition of 

 most of those at Waddeton. Nevertheless, if man has neither disturbed the 

 specimen mentioned as occupying the very low position in the meadow nor 

 those at higher levels, the general contour of the district can have undergone 

 very little change since they were deposited where they now are, and the 

 date of that event cannot be very remote geologically. 



4th. Assunung the boulder formerly adjacent to the farmhouse, and 

 broken up by Mr. Studdy, to have been 10 feet in mean diameter, that its 

 form was spherical or nearly so, and that its specific gravity Avas 2-5, or not 

 above that of common stone, it must have measured upwards of 500 cubic 

 feet and weighed fully 36 tons. It is no doubt possible for such Mavcs as 



