PROCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



[Nov. 8, 



Minehead valley ; on the S.S.W. rise Dunkerry Beacon (] 678 ft.) and 

 Porlock Hill ; from its position, amidst some of the highest ground 

 of the West of England, it presents some exquisite scenery, and has 

 many points of geological interest. 



In common with the broad valley between the Quantocks and the 



SJcetch-majp of the neighhourhood of PorlocJc. 



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Submerged Forest-beds. 



Exmoor range, it affords the clearest evidences that the North 

 Devon and Somerset ranges had acquired their elevations antece- 

 dently to the accumulation of " Red Conglomerate," as also of the 

 Glacial conditions under which the materials of that Conglomerate 

 were brought together. Surmounting these is the best exhibition 

 to be met with in this county of the beds of the earliest Jurassic 



