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Birstall Lodge, and also after descending the very steep hill from 

 near the latter place, and on to Belgrave, near the river. There 

 are, therefore, the beds of gravel just above the river, where the 

 Mammalian remains were found, which are now in the Leicester 

 Museum ; the high flat ground of Thurcaston, and an extension of 

 drift of an older date occurring on the flanks of the hills of 

 Charnwood. 



The great quantity of drift in Leicestershire was, many years ago, 

 noticed in the Beliquice Diluviance, by Dr. Buckland, in which he 

 gives the following extract from the Eev. W. D. Conybeare : " From 

 Houghton-on-the-Hill, near Leicester, to Braunston, near Daventry, 

 proceeding by Market Harborough and Lutterworth, the traveller 

 passes over a continuous bed of gravel for about forty miles. Near 

 Hinckley, great depositions of gravel, probably connected with this 

 mass, are found, and afford pebbles, containing specimens of the 

 organic remains of most of the Secondary strata in England. This 

 deposition may probably be traced continuously to that of Shipston- 

 on-Stour, most of the hillocks scattered over the Lias and Eed Marl 

 tract between Southam and Shipston being covered with this 

 gravel." And again he says, "It would, however, not be difficult in 

 many places, as, for instance, on the West of Market Harborough, 

 and in the valley of Shipston-on-Stour, to form almost .a complete 

 geological series of English rocks from among these rounded frag- 

 ments, which often occur in boulders of very considerable size." 



This therefore shows a clear connexion between the gravels of 

 Leicestershire and those near to Shipston-on-Stour, which latter I 

 have studied with some attention, and have clearly traced them on 

 to the high ground of the Cotteswold Hills, and I am firmly im- 

 pressed with the opinion that Charnwood Forest was submerged at 

 the same time as the Cotteswolds, 



I hope, shortly, to work out the Leicestershire Gravels, and to 

 illustrate them in like manner to my Memoir on the Cotteswold 

 Drifts. 



ni — On the Coal-beabing Eocks of Sotjtheen Chile. 



By G. A. Lebodr, F.G.S., F.R.G.S., 



of the Geological Survey of England and Wales; 



and "Wm. Mundle, M.E., member of the North of England Inst, of Min. Engin. 



LITTLE as the Geology of South America has been worked, yet 

 the presence of coal along the coast of Chile has long been 

 known to navigators and others. Of late years this coal has been 

 worked in sundry places — in short, wherever the circumstances 

 seemed most favourable. The strata in which the seams occur, were 

 made the subject of considerable study from a palseontological point 

 of view by D'Orbigny and by Darwin ; but not until the last ten or 

 fifteen years have the resources of the country, with regard to this 

 branch of industry, been examined into sufficiently to enable a 

 correct estimate to be made of them. The surveys, which have been 

 the direct result of the interest awakened by the knowledge of the 

 presence of workable seams of lignite in Chile, have been greatly 



