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DOLOMITIG CONGLOMEUATE OE BRISTOL. 



Tlio next consi<]oriiblo aroa of tlic Conglomorato in a south- 

 oastorly direction, is between Draycott and Wookoy. It 

 lies between the Glieddar Valley Railway and tlio Mondips, 

 the lino in no case touching it, but runniiig through the lied 

 Marl until near Lodge Hill station, whore it runs through 

 a sudden spur, again leaving it for the lied Marl towards 

 Wells. At Draycott there ia rather a fine quarry of the 

 Dolomitic Conglomorato, from which some capital building 

 stone is obtainable, and of which the front of the Bristol 

 Joint Station and other works in connection therewith 

 were built, and which is said to withstand the Bristol 

 acids better than most of the stono used in the buildings 

 of Bristol. Many of the buildings on the Cheddar Valley 

 Eailway are also built of the same material. Near Dray- 

 cott are three or four peculiar isolated pieces of Mountain 

 Limestone, standing together in a group, more than a mile 

 away from the main body, in the midst of the river Axe 

 Alluvium, and which are also nearly, if not quite, sur- 

 rounded by a belt of Dolomitic Conglomerate. The railway 

 runs through the mid-distance between them and the Con- 

 glomerate fringing the main body of the 1/imestone range. 

 There are also peculiar small isolated j)ortions of Ijimostono 

 at Lodge Hill and near Wookey, although they stand in the 

 midst of Red Marl, and not, as in the case at Draycott, in 

 the midst of Alluvium. There is a narrow strip of Dolomitic 

 Ooiiglomei-ato near the eastern edge of that at Ijodge Hill, 

 but none near Wookoy, althougli in the latter case it stands 

 very near the edge of the Conglomerate running out from 

 the main body near Ijodge Hill Station. 



There is a large extent of Dolomitic Conglomerate near 

 Chilcompton and Stratton-on-the-ITosse, on the northern side 

 of the Mendip range, measuring about three miles in length 

 from east to west, and one and a half mile in breadth from 



