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which exhibits some remarkable changes in its stratification. The 

 strata rise to a considerable height on the side of the hill, bearing 

 N. and S. and dipping VV. 60°. As they ascend, the ends of the 

 strata become more inclined, and at the place where they crop out, 

 they are nearly vertical ; exhibiting the same appearance as the 

 limestone strata of Pearly quarry, represented in sketch No. 2. About 

 a hundred yards to the westward of this place, another quarry is 

 worked in which the strata have the same bearing as in the quarry 

 above, but they dip E. 60% so that if a transverse section were made 

 of the limestone in both quarries, the strata would be seen to meet 

 like the sides of the letter V. 



§ 59. A long ridge, called Old Castle Bank, extends from the 

 Herefordshire Beacon, with a gradual slope towards the west. This 

 ridge is almost entirely composed of the argillaceous rock, containing 

 balls of limestone, in strata bearing S.W. and N.E. and dipping N.W. 

 18°. On the side of the Herefordshire Beacon, and on the left of 

 the road from Worcester to Ledbury which passes along the top 

 of this ridge, there are thin strata of limestone alternating with 

 the argillaceous rock : but the strata in this place have a direction 

 from N. to S. and they dip E. 60°. This is the highest point where 

 \ found the stratified rocks rising upon the Malvern range, and it is 

 about one third of the elevation of the Herefordshire Beacon. 



§ 60. To the south of Old Castle Bank, in a wood belonging to 

 Lord Somers, there is a limestone quarry immediately at the foot of 

 the Herefordshire Beacon, where the strata occur in a vertical posi- 

 tion, with a direction from N. to S. 



§61. In the extensive limestone quarry on the right hand side 

 of the road to Ledbury, and near that town, the bearing of the strata 

 is in one part N. and S. with a dip to the E. of 18°. Within a 

 very short distance, both positions are completely changed, the 



