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occasional small included fragments of felspar and slate. It is not 

 very unlike the rock of Sandhills Lodge near Newtown. The rocks 

 round the cross also show no dip, but contain distinct fragments of 

 some size. 



In the kitchen-garden is an outcrop of indurated pinkish slate 

 striking E.N.E., but not sufficiently exposed in breadth to show dip. 

 It is overlain by a mass of a very haudsome rock— a bluish ash, 

 mottled almost like a coarse mosaic, with pink fragments of a com- 

 pact gritty rock. It would look well polished. "We think it identical 

 with the rocks of Timberwood Hill. Some distance further east, 

 beyond the monastery grounds (about a quarter of a mile west of the 

 cross lanes by Charley), is a crag, of which the upper portion consists 

 of distinct greenish banded fine grits dipping south (not S.S.W. as 

 on the map). Below them is a thick, massive ash, somewhat variable 

 in character, some specimens being coarse, schistose and mottled, but 

 in colour dark, others a green grit with quartz grains and small 

 fragments of slates and of felspar, others resembling the first with 

 patches of a felspathic material. What underlies this cannot be . 

 seen. 



On the other side of the lane, north of the monastery, is a small 

 patch of rock similar to that of Kite Hill, dark green gritty ash, 

 with some paler bands in it, from which, perhaps, the dip might be 

 ascertained. 



Distant from this about a quarter of a mile (by Upper Blackbrook) 

 are some rocks we have not seen ; but a small quarry in the hollow 

 of the north bend of the brook contains a pinkish ashy slate with fine 

 banded markings, closely resembling in colour and peculiar aspect 

 the Charley and Charley-Wood slaty beds. 



Immediately N.W. of our starting-point for the last section lies 

 the range of crags called Peldar Tor. The rock is a remarkable 

 one, with a dark bluish matrix, sometimes weathering pale green, 

 but usually dark, containing large porphyritic crystals of felspar, 

 and grains of quartz often as large as peas. These stand out con- 

 spicuously from the weathered surfaces, often showing an imperfect 

 crystal-form. The rock is very uniform, so that dip can only be guessed 

 at from planes of separation &c. These at the south end are tolerably 

 distinct, indicating a W.S.W. dip of about 20°; but at the north end 

 there is some slight appearance of curving round to a west dip. We 

 have not noticed any certain indications of breccia throughout this 

 Peldar-Tor area ; and the highest beds only differ from the rest in 

 being rather greener and more decomposed. Microscopic examina- 

 tion shows that the rock, though much altered and obscured by the 

 secondary formation of numerous groups of epidote crystals, is of 

 fragmental origin. The base of these beds cannot anywhere here be 

 seen. 



Just north of Peldar Tor, separated from it by a belt of arable 

 land, is a ridge running N.E., bearing on the map the name of 

 Hatchet Hill. The various isolated outcrops of rock between this 

 and the outskirts of Whitwick are difficult to correlate. One of 

 them at least contains a good deal of breccia, which, however, is 



