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felspathic trap derived from the waste of that ancient Cambrian and 

 Lower Silurian island. They may be identified by this circumstance, 

 for in no other place with which we are acquainted does the Upper 

 Caradoc assume this character ; and Mr. Salter also gives the con- 

 firmatory opinion, that the assemblage of fossils nearly resembles 

 some of the groupings in the parent rocks near Hope. It is there- 

 fore difficult to escape from the conclusion that the rocks generally 

 must have travelled from that country across a space from forty-five 

 to fifty miles. 



Between the Forest of Wyre and the south end of the Malvern 

 Hills several patches of the breccia occur at intervals, resting on the 

 coal-measures and on the Silurian rocks of the Malvern and Abberley 

 range*. The most northerly is that at Wars Hill, about two miles 

 west of Kidderminster. It lies directly on the coal-measures ; and 

 on the east the Bunter pebble-beds and Lower brick-red Sandstone 

 are faulted against it. 



Fig. 5. — Section of the Bunter and the Permian bedsy with Breccia, 



at Wars Hill. 



W. Wars Hill. E. 



Fault. 



1. Old Red Sandstone. 2. Coal-measures. 3. Permian sandstone and marl, 

 with breccia on top. 4. Lower brick-red sandstone, and 5. Pebble-beds (Bunter). 



This breccia contains fragments of grey sandstone, very common, 

 grey slate, ashy sandstone, highly felspathic sandstone, felspathic 

 trap, and carboniferous limestone chert. The paste that binds them 

 together is a bright-red marl. No very good sections are exposed ; 

 and the component stones of the breccia are apparently never larger 

 than 8 or 10 inches in diameter. A calcareous conglomerate, iden- 

 tical in structure with that near Enville, underlies the Breccia, being 

 separated from it by sandy and marly beds. The relative positions 

 of the breccia and this conglomerate are therefore the same at Wars 

 Hill and Enville, and there is no reason to doubt that, in general 

 terms, they are equivalents. About three miles further south, a 

 similar breccia occurs on Stagbury Hill, one mile and a half west of 

 Stourport. This also rests on the coal-measures, and helps to form 

 a connecting link between the Enville and the Abberley breccias, 

 which lie indifferently on several of the older Palaeozoic formations. 

 On Stagbury Hill the mass dips east, at angles of about 50°, and the 

 pebble-beds are faulted against it, their junction being, however, con- 

 cealed by the alluvium of the Severn f. 



* In consequence of the quantities of felspathic angular fragments which came 

 out from beneath the sward, these patches were coloured as igneous rocks by Sir 

 Roderick Murchison, who also informs me that no quarries were at that time 

 opened on the hills. 



t Notwithstanding the alluvium, there is no real obscurity about this fault, 

 which has been traced. 



