﻿A. 
  W. 
  EDGELL 
  ON 
  BUDLEIGH-SALTERTON 
  IAMEILIBRANCHS. 
  49 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Godwin-Austen 
  observed 
  that 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  remarkable 
  features 
  

   of 
  the 
  Budleigh-Salterton-beds 
  was 
  the 
  presence 
  of 
  fine 
  sandy 
  

   deposits, 
  both 
  above 
  and 
  below, 
  which 
  at 
  once 
  suggested 
  a 
  difficult 
  

   question 
  as 
  to 
  what 
  could 
  have 
  been 
  the 
  condition 
  under 
  which 
  

   they 
  were 
  deposited. 
  He 
  thought 
  that 
  they 
  might 
  be 
  connected 
  

   with 
  some 
  glacial 
  action, 
  especially 
  as 
  blocks 
  of 
  porphyry, 
  25 
  tons 
  

   in 
  weight, 
  had 
  been 
  transported 
  from 
  the 
  neighbourhood 
  of 
  Exeter 
  

   and 
  deposited 
  in 
  the 
  Triassic 
  beds, 
  which 
  could 
  hardly 
  have 
  been 
  

   effected 
  otherwise 
  than 
  by 
  ice. 
  In 
  the 
  same 
  manner 
  as 
  the 
  shingle 
  

   of 
  Lake 
  Superior 
  is 
  carried 
  away 
  and 
  redeposited 
  by 
  shore-ice, 
  so 
  he 
  

   thought 
  it 
  possible 
  that 
  some 
  action 
  of 
  the 
  same 
  kind 
  might 
  during 
  

   a 
  portion 
  of 
  the 
  New 
  Red 
  Sandstone 
  period 
  have 
  drifted 
  materials 
  

   off 
  from 
  the 
  French 
  shore 
  of 
  the 
  Triassic 
  lake, 
  and 
  deposited 
  them 
  

   in 
  this 
  shingle-bed 
  at 
  Budleigh-Salterton. 
  In 
  conclusion, 
  he 
  alluded 
  

   to 
  the 
  loss 
  which 
  the 
  Society 
  had 
  sustained 
  in 
  the 
  death 
  of 
  Professor 
  

   Louis 
  Agassiz, 
  its 
  distinguished 
  foreign 
  member, 
  to 
  whom 
  the 
  now 
  

   generally 
  accepted 
  term 
  roches 
  moutonnees 
  and 
  other 
  evidence 
  of 
  

   glacial 
  action, 
  so 
  often 
  mentioned 
  in 
  the 
  course 
  of 
  the 
  evening, 
  was 
  

   due. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Whitaker 
  pointed 
  out 
  that 
  in 
  the 
  slaty 
  rocks 
  at 
  Mevagissey 
  

   in 
  Southern 
  Cornwall, 
  there 
  were 
  quartz 
  reefs 
  of 
  similar 
  material 
  to 
  

   the 
  material 
  of 
  the 
  pebbles 
  at 
  Budleigh-Salterton, 
  and 
  recommended 
  

   a 
  careful 
  examination 
  of 
  these 
  reefs 
  before 
  accepting 
  the 
  Breton 
  origin 
  

   of 
  the 
  pebbles 
  as 
  conclusively 
  established. 
  The 
  deposit 
  at 
  Budleigh 
  

   Salterton 
  was, 
  he 
  believed, 
  a 
  lenticular 
  mass 
  of 
  no 
  great 
  extent. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Etheridge 
  remarked 
  that 
  Mr. 
  Salter 
  had 
  long 
  ago 
  been 
  of 
  

   opinion 
  that 
  the 
  fossils 
  in 
  the 
  pebbles 
  were 
  of 
  Erench 
  origin. 
  

   Mr. 
  Tawney, 
  also, 
  had 
  examined 
  the 
  beds 
  near 
  Torbay 
  and 
  Babba- 
  

   combe, 
  and 
  found 
  the 
  lithological 
  character 
  curiously 
  like 
  that 
  of 
  

   the 
  pebbles. 
  He 
  did 
  not, 
  however, 
  think 
  that 
  any 
  of 
  the 
  same 
  

   fossils 
  had 
  been 
  found 
  in 
  them 
  ; 
  nor 
  had 
  they 
  been 
  found 
  in 
  the 
  

   Mevagissey 
  beds 
  in 
  Cornwall. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Hicks 
  thought 
  that 
  we 
  were 
  going 
  too 
  far 
  in 
  search 
  of 
  the 
  

   original 
  home 
  of 
  the 
  fossils, 
  which 
  might 
  have 
  been 
  in 
  some 
  rocks' 
  

   destroyed 
  during 
  the 
  formation 
  of 
  the 
  Channel. 
  

  

  Q. 
  J. 
  G. 
  S. 
  No. 
  117, 
  

  

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