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  53.] 
  NEAR 
  BUNHAHOlSr, 
  CO. 
  WATEEFOED. 
  287 
  

  

  as 
  it 
  was 
  by 
  clear 
  diagrams 
  and 
  good 
  specimens, 
  he 
  felt 
  very 
  much 
  

   inclined 
  to 
  concur 
  in 
  the 
  Author's 
  views. 
  The 
  specimens 
  of 
  con- 
  

   glomerate 
  considered 
  by 
  the 
  Author 
  to 
  have 
  been 
  let 
  down 
  by 
  faults, 
  

   and 
  to 
  be 
  discordantly 
  superimposed 
  on 
  the 
  Lower 
  Silurian 
  (or 
  Ordo- 
  

   vician) 
  rocks, 
  appeared 
  to 
  him 
  to 
  resemble 
  the 
  beds 
  of 
  the 
  Upper 
  Old 
  

   Red 
  Sandstone, 
  rather 
  than 
  those 
  of 
  the 
  Lower 
  Silurian 
  of 
  that 
  part 
  

   of 
  Ireland; 
  and 
  considering 
  the 
  whole 
  case, 
  as 
  ably 
  discussed 
  by 
  the 
  

   Author, 
  he 
  was 
  disposed 
  to 
  think 
  that 
  the 
  latter's 
  views 
  had 
  been 
  

   made 
  out. 
  

  

  Prof. 
  Hughes 
  had 
  examined 
  some 
  of 
  the 
  rocks 
  described 
  by 
  the 
  

   Author 
  in 
  the 
  neighbourhood 
  of 
  Waterford, 
  and 
  so 
  far 
  as 
  his 
  own 
  

   observations 
  went 
  they 
  were 
  quite 
  in 
  accord 
  with 
  those 
  of 
  the 
  Author. 
  

   He 
  did 
  not 
  see 
  how 
  there 
  could 
  be 
  much 
  doubt 
  as 
  to 
  his 
  inferences, 
  

   if 
  the 
  facts 
  which 
  he 
  had 
  recorded 
  and 
  supported 
  by 
  photographs, 
  

   sections, 
  and 
  plans 
  were 
  admitted. 
  The 
  crushed-looking 
  weathered 
  

   character 
  of 
  the 
  older 
  rocks 
  immediately 
  below 
  the 
  conglomerate 
  

   was 
  precisely 
  what 
  we 
  should 
  expect 
  to 
  represent 
  an 
  ancient 
  

   land-surface. 
  The 
  angular 
  fragments 
  of 
  subaerial 
  talus 
  at 
  the 
  base, 
  

   and 
  the 
  tough 
  pebbles 
  in 
  a 
  somewhat 
  oxidized 
  matrix 
  of 
  the 
  over- 
  

   lying 
  series, 
  were 
  exactly 
  what 
  must 
  have 
  resulted 
  from 
  the 
  washing- 
  

   down 
  of 
  the 
  superficial 
  deposits- 
  of 
  a 
  gradually 
  submerged 
  area. 
  

   And 
  all 
  this, 
  together 
  with 
  the 
  evidence 
  of 
  great 
  disturbances 
  

   between 
  the 
  deposition 
  of 
  the 
  two 
  series, 
  and 
  the 
  nature 
  of 
  the 
  

   movements 
  shown 
  to 
  have 
  occurred 
  since 
  the 
  deposition 
  of 
  the 
  newer 
  

   beds, 
  agreed 
  with 
  what 
  was 
  known 
  as 
  to 
  the 
  relations 
  of 
  the 
  

   Devonian 
  to 
  the 
  pre-Devonian 
  rocks, 
  but 
  not 
  with 
  the 
  relations 
  

   known 
  to 
  exist 
  between 
  the 
  Silurian 
  and 
  Ordovician, 
  or 
  between 
  

   any 
  of 
  the 
  several 
  members 
  of 
  the 
  Ordovician. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  W. 
  W. 
  Watts 
  pointed 
  out 
  that 
  the 
  determination 
  of 
  these 
  

   rocks 
  as 
  Silurian 
  had 
  been 
  made 
  by 
  Du 
  jNoyer, 
  who, 
  after 
  examining 
  

   the 
  ground, 
  came 
  to 
  the 
  conclusion 
  that 
  Jukes 
  was 
  right 
  in 
  regarding 
  

   them 
  as 
  belonging 
  to 
  this 
  period. 
  Similar, 
  but 
  thinner, 
  red 
  rocks 
  

   occurring 
  near 
  Wexford, 
  seen 
  by 
  the 
  speaker 
  and 
  Mr. 
  McHenry, 
  

   were 
  intercalated 
  in 
  the 
  Silurian 
  rocks 
  in 
  a 
  district 
  where 
  true 
  Old 
  

   Eed 
  Sandstone 
  was 
  unknown. 
  If 
  the 
  Author 
  were 
  right 
  as 
  to 
  his 
  

   facts, 
  there 
  could 
  be 
  no 
  doubt 
  as 
  to 
  the 
  interpretation 
  of 
  them. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  H. 
  W. 
  Monckton, 
  Mr. 
  J. 
  E. 
  Mare, 
  Mr. 
  W. 
  Whitaker, 
  aud 
  

   Mr. 
  W. 
  V. 
  Ball 
  also 
  spoke. 
  

  

  The 
  Author 
  thanked 
  the 
  Fellows 
  for 
  the 
  manner 
  in 
  which 
  they 
  

   had 
  received 
  his 
  paper. 
  Referring 
  to 
  remarks 
  made 
  by 
  the 
  President 
  

   and 
  Mr. 
  Watts, 
  he 
  wished 
  to 
  express 
  his 
  sense 
  of 
  the 
  value 
  of 
  the 
  

   work 
  of 
  the 
  Geological 
  Survey 
  in 
  that 
  part 
  of 
  Ireland, 
  though 
  he 
  

   differed 
  from 
  the 
  Surveyors' 
  conclusions 
  about 
  the 
  age 
  of 
  these 
  beds. 
  

   The 
  faults 
  affecting 
  the 
  red 
  rocks 
  were 
  in 
  his 
  opinion 
  probably 
  con- 
  

   temporaneous 
  with 
  the 
  post-Carboniferous 
  folding. 
  With 
  regard 
  to 
  

   the 
  view 
  expressed 
  by 
  Mr. 
  Watts 
  that 
  the 
  beds 
  might 
  be 
  of 
  Silurian 
  

   age, 
  he 
  thought 
  it 
  highly 
  improbable 
  — 
  firstly, 
  because 
  of 
  their 
  com- 
  

   plete 
  identity 
  in 
  character 
  with 
  the 
  typical 
  Old 
  Red 
  Sandstone 
  of 
  

   the 
  county, 
  and 
  in 
  their 
  relations 
  to 
  the 
  underlying 
  rocks 
  ; 
  and 
  

   secondly, 
  because 
  of 
  the 
  complete 
  absence 
  of 
  proof 
  of 
  the 
  deposition 
  

  

  