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the range ; but that there is a great irregularity in the dip, even 

 within a very hmited space, § 58 ; that the strata nearest the un- 

 stratified rocks are in general vertical, §§ 47, 52, 60 ; or inclined at 

 a considerable angle w^ith a western dip, § 58 ; but that in some 

 places they dip in an opposite direction, that is, towards the hill, 

 § 5Q ; and they are found in that position, at the highest point to 

 which they rise upon the side of the range, § 59. I did not, in any 

 situation, discover the actual contact of the stratified and unstratified 

 rocks. 



Of the Rocks on the Eastern side of the Malvern Hills. 



§ 64. From the bottom of the hills to the banks of the river 

 Severn, there is a wide extended plain, the uniform level of which 

 is only interrupted in a few places by low wooded eminences. 



§ 65. At the foot of the hills, immediately below the surface 

 soil, there is a coarse gravel, consisting chiefly of angular fragments, 

 which I found to be the same as the unstratified rocks of the range. 

 These are mixed with a small quantity of red clay, that seems to be 

 produced from the decomposition of the rock, many of the fragments 

 being quite friable. 



§ 66. The ground is quite unbroken in the whole extent of the 

 plain, except where an occasional rising has been cut through for the 

 •sake of preserving the level of the road ; and as the rock is not 

 adapted to economical purposes, there is no quarry where it is 

 exposed. But at the termination of that part of the plain which is 

 opposite to the Worcestershire Beacon, the right bank of the Severn 

 is nearly 70 feet in perpendicular height, so that a good section of the 

 rock is exhibited in that place. It is a red argillaceous sandstone, 

 with occasional beds or long patches of a white quartzose sandstone : 

 it does not offer any signs of stratification, except that these white 



