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both, forming the highest crests of their respective ridges, dip 

 towards the New Red Sandstone plain at Hundred House and Great 

 Witley. 



The Permian rock contains subangular fragments and larger 

 boulder-like blocks of greenstone (very numerous), felstone, brec- 

 ciated ashy conglomerate, greenstone-amygdaloid, felspathic ash 

 and porphyry, purple grit, red conglomerate (with rounded pebbles), 

 micaceous marl (Old Red ?), green-banded slate, ribboned slate, and 

 altered black and green slate. As in the other localities, the rock 

 may be described as a rudely stratified breccia. At Abberley Hill, 

 some of the masses are from 2 to 3 feet in diameter, and in one of 

 the quarries near the base of Woodbury Hill I saw one half-rounded 

 boulder-shaped fragment which measured 2 ft. 4 in. X 1 ft. 6 in. 

 X 1 foot in diameter. 



Following the Abberley and Malvern chain to the south, the 

 Breccias again appear for about one mile and a half between Berrow 

 Hill and the Teme, and also at Woodbury Rock, on the south side 

 of that river, near Knightsford-bridge. On Berrow Hill they rest on 

 a thin strip of Coal-measures ; but a little further south they overlap 

 this, and lie directly on the Old Red Sandstone. On the east, the 

 upper part of the white sandstone is faulted against them. 



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Fig. 8. — Section of Berrow Hill. 



Berrow Hill. 



Fault. 



1. Old Red Sandstone. 2. Coal-measures. 3. Permian breccia. 4. White 

 sandstone (Bunter). 5. Red marl (Keuper). 



In this breccia we find greenstone, purplish-grey brecciated trap, 

 felstone, felspathic porphyry, purple grit, and slate, grey and ribboned 

 slate, brown sandstone, quartz-rock, red conglomerate, calcareous 

 sandstone, limestone, and a few pieces of granite. 



On Berrow Hill, the largest fragments observed were about a foot 

 in diameter. At Woodbury Rock, purple grits form the great 

 majority of the fragments, and many of the boulders are unusually 

 large, one of them, of reddish conglomerate, attaining the size of 

 4 feet by 3, by 1^ deep. With the exception of some small pieces of 

 granite, which may be derived from the Malvern Hills further south, 

 the whole of the specimens again resemble the rocks of the Long- 

 mynd and the Shropshire and Montgomeryshire Silurian rocks west 

 of the Stiper Stones. 



A rock of similar structure to the rest of the breccias appears at 

 Alfrick ; but, as it seems more likely to be of Bunter than of Per- 

 mian date, I shall pass it over for the present. It is bounded on 

 the west by the same fault that ranges along the east side of the 



