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both common fossils of the same group. It is, however, to be 

 observed, that these indications of the conglomerate bed are not scat- 

 tered indiscriminately over the entire slope, for they do not occur 

 below a certain line, beyond which the stony fragments, large and 

 small, have an entirely different character. These latter consist of 

 great nodules or fragments of nodules of a dark-grey compact lime- 

 " Valudayur" lime- ^^^^®^ ^^^^^ conglomeratic, and most commonly 

 '^*°"®- without fossils, but where fossils occur, they are 



in vast numbers, large and small indiscriminately intermingled, and 

 cono-regated in nests in the mass of the nodule. The species are, so 

 far as I have been able to compare them, all different from those of 

 the conglomerate bed, and probably, owing to the fineness of the 

 matrix, they are in beautiful preservation, the more fragile specimens 

 beino- sometimes broken, but never rolled. Baculites vagina and 

 Pholadomya lucerna are the most conspicuous 



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species, Bacuhtes teres, a small sharply-ridged 

 Hamite, {H. temnsulcatus? ¥orhes) Strombus uncatus,Yorhes, Solecurtus 

 ohscurus, Forbes, are less common, and with these are a mass of small 

 bivalves and univalves, the species of which I have not determined. 

 It is remarkable that, while in Messrs. Kaye's and Cunliffe's col- 

 lections obtained from this spot, the Ammonites were among the most 

 numerous and best preserved specimens of the collection, I have not 

 been able to obtain a single good specimen of the genus. Fragments 

 of some of the smaller species, as A. Rouyanus, A. Kayei, &c., I have 

 indeed seen, but even these rarely, and I can only attribute my ill 

 fortune to my having come into the field after the locality had been 

 searched and researched by many sharp-eyed collectors, of whose visits 

 the rejected fragments scattered about furnish abundant evidence, 

 this is, and must be, the case where no new material is furnished 

 by quarries or other excavations. In so limited an area the first comer 

 vill naturally carry off the best prizes. I may notice, however, that 



