304 Mr. Horner on the Mineralogy of the Malvern Hills. 



quartz and felspar, united by an argillo-calcareous cement, and the 

 whole crossed by veins of calcareous spar which sometimes cut 

 through the imbedded pebbles. It is very different from the breccia 

 noticed § 41. ^, as occurring in the lower part of the north side of the 

 Holly-Bush Hill; for in that, the fragments are united by a quartzose 

 base. 



§ 45. In the account which I have now laid before the Society of 

 the unstratified rocks of the Malvern Hills, I have chiefly dwelt upon 

 those found in the northern parts. It is there that the rocks are most 

 exposed, and as I resided at Great Malvern, I had an opportunity of 

 examining that end of the range with more leisure and attention than 

 I could bestow on the more distant hills to the south. 



Of the Slrat'ifed Rocks on the Western Side of the Malvern Hills. 



§ 46. In describing these, I shall observe the same plan I have 

 adopted in regard to the unstratified rocks, by beginning at the 

 northern end of the range, and proceeding towards the south. 



§ 47. The first stratified rock that is exposed in turning round 

 the End-hill from Great Malvern, is a coarse-grained sandstone of a 

 purplish-brown colour, composed of rounded and angular fragments 

 of quartz and felspar, but chiefly of the former, few of them exceed- 

 ing the size of a pea. This rock is loosely aggregated, particularly 

 in those parts where the fragments are largest, as the ferro-argil- 

 laceous cement is in very small quantity, and even appears to be 

 itself composed of minute grains. It occurs in strata seldom exceed- 

 ing a foot in thickness, in a vertical position, and bearing N. and S. ; 

 a good section of them is exhibited in the side of the road. This 

 sandstone is not however the nearest stratified rock to the Malvern 



