414 The late Sir Joseph Prestwich — 



1 pebble soft ragstone. 



2 subangular fragments of decomposed white flint. 

 1 angular fragment of flint unaltered. 



1 augular pebble of grey quartzite. 



2 subangular fragments of white veined quartz. 

 1 subangular fragment of hornstone. 



1 rough pebble of compact slate. 

 1 subangular fragment of iron -sandstone. 

 1 piece of ironstone with white quartz pebbles. 

 W.? [ = WestletonBeds?]. 

 [See Prestwich, on "Westleton Beds, Part III, Quart. Journ. Geol. See, 

 vol. xlvi, p. 162.] 



1852. — Sidmonth. The hills to the west are capped by a mass of 

 broken flints in yellow clay and sand ; they are -perfectly sharp and 

 associated with a mass of small sharp fragments ; sometimes the 

 clay is ochreous and slightly ferruginous. The whole is confusedly 

 heaped together. In places there is hardly anything but the clean 

 sharp flints, no matrix. A few subangular pieces of iron-sandstone 

 occur in the gravel. 



Large blocks consisting of a hard light-drab or white siliceous 

 limestone paste, embedding sharply angular flints and fragments of 

 flints, occur also in the gravel ; some of the blocks are 4 to 5 feet in 

 diameter, some of them are mere small hand-pieces. A gravel covers 

 slightly the slopes of the hills, and is accumulated thickly in the 

 valleys. The same flint-gravel caps the hills around Lyme Regis. 



[A section at the railway cutting, Newton Bushel (Newton 

 Abbot), was noted in April, 1847. This was represented roughly 

 in diagram as showing : — ] 



Gravel and sand irregularly overlying a series of inclined beds as follows : — - 

 Eed clays and lumps of limestone. 

 Coarse sands and gravels, white quartz sands, chert nodules, black angular 



pebbles. 

 Fine white clay and sandy clay. 

 Coarse white sands and fine gravel. 



Eed clay passing into light clay with lumps of carb. wood [lignite]. 

 Coarse sands, as above. 



[See also Prestwich, Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc, vol. xlviii, p. 318 ; H. B. 

 Woodward, ibid., vol. xxxii, p. 230; Ussher, ibid., vol. xxxiv, p. 448; C. Reid, 

 ibid., vol. liv, p. 234; A. E. Salter, Proe. Geol. Assoc, vol. xv, p. 282; 

 D. Mackintosh, Geol. Mag., 1867, p. 392.] 



Easter excursion, April, 1867. —J. P. [Prestwich], Godwin- Austen, 

 Gwyn Jeffreys, and Captain Galton joined at Plymouth by Spence Bate. 



To Newton Bushel, upper gravels of Bovey Tracey, large and 

 coarse, mostly quartz pebbles. They seem to be about 50 feet above 

 level of river. Portion of Bovey Tracey Beds rises out from them. 



Beyond Bovey Tracey the rocks are bare, but descending to the 

 river at Woolford [Wilford] bridge we found ledges of a gravel 

 terrace fringing the valley at a height of about 25 feet above river. 

 It contained largish blocks of rolled granite, no scratched pebbles, 

 and is about 4 to 6 feet thick. At one place it is overlaid by 

 imperfect loess and angular debris. 



At Willoway [about one mile south of Wray Barton] the river- 

 banks show the lower gravel (about 5 to 6 feet above stream) more 

 worn and generally finer, but with more numerous blocks of granite. 



