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the coastline. The northern end of this plateau is about 330 feet 
above Ordnance datum, but it slopes gradually southward, till on 
Walls Hill its highest part is only 267 feet. 
On the west of Torquay the old plain has been so dissected by 
streams, and so lowered by detritive agencies, that it is almost 
destroyed. Remnants, however, remain in Waldon Hill (200 feet), 
Stentiford Hill (230 feet), and Daddy Hole Plain (about 200 feet). 
The central hills of Torquay, which are known as Warberry Hill 
and Lincombe Hill, rise to much greater heights (440 and 400 feet), 
and stand up as conspicuous eminences above the level of the 
surrounding plateau. 
The evidence as to the age of the planation is next considered. It 
is proved to be post-Permian by the fact that Permian breccia forms 
part of the plateau-surface at St. Marychureh. It is also probably 
post-Cretaceous, because Cretaceous planation is not likely to-have 
removed all the Permian. Its present dissected condition shows that 
it is older than the Pleistocene, and consequently an Eocene date 
would agree with local evidence. 
The author accepts the Eocene age of the Haldon gravels and of the 
Bovey deposits, and adduces evidence for a connection between the 
Haldon plateau and the Bovey basin on the one hand, and between 
the Ailer basin and the Torquay plateau-area on the other. He 
regards the Bovey basin as a locally deep depression along a line of 
Miocene deflexion which crosses Devon from north-west to south-east, 
and believes the plateau-area near Torquay to be the flattened-out 
extension of this flexure. He thus considers the plateau to be part of 
the basal plain on which the Eocene deposits lie, and infers that these 
deposits passed directly out of the Aller basin on to this plateau, 
burying it to a depth of several hundred feet. 
Thus it was on the surface of the Eocene deposits that the existing 
system of drainage was established. 
The Brixham plateau, south of Torbay, presents similar features 
and appears to be of the same age, but in its case the drainage is 
northward from higher ground to the south. ‘This plateau can be 
traced westward through Churston and Galmpton to Stoke Gabriel, 
where there is high ground both to the north and south of it. It is 
inferred that this plateau is the site of a second shallow flexure, the 
axis of which ran nearly west and east, so as to meet and merge into 
the other line of flexure outside the entrance of Torbay. Incidentally 
this would explain the formation of Torbay. 
IJ.—February 15th, 1907.—Sir Archibald Geikie, Sce.D., D.C.L., 
LL.D., Sec. R.S., President, in the Chair. 
AnnuaL GENERAL MEETING. 
The Reports of the Council and of the Library and Museum 
Committee for the year 1906 were read. 
The Reports having been received, the President presented the 
Wollaston Medal to Prof. William J ohnson Sollas, F.R.S. ade 
him as follows :— - 
