of Tor and Babbacombe Baj/s, Devon. 165 



Natica ? small and indistinct. 



Euomphalus small and indistinct. 



Bellerophon tenuifascia Min. Con. T. 470. f. 2. 3. 



Turritt'Ua abbreviata Sow. Sp. Nov. Min. Con. 565. 



Turritclla? small ill.defined species, found also in Ireland. 



Murex ? Harpula Sow. Sp. Nov. 



BucciQum spinosum Min. Con. T. 566. f. 4. 



breve Min. Con, T. 566. f. 3, 



imbricatum Min. Con. T. 566. f. 2. 



Pleurotoma (Helix Min. Con.) like Helix carinatus. T. 10. 



Nautilus 



Orthoceras 



1. Limestones of St. Marij Church, Babbacombe, and the Northern Side of 



Tor Bay. 



These encircle the old red sandstone, which extends from Meadfoot-sands 

 towards Upham. The section on the south side of Meadfoot-sands shows the 

 limestones resting on old red sandstone. The quarry at the south-west points, 

 opposite a rock called the Shag- Rock, is worked in grey and reddish, compact 

 limestone, dipping- south-west : beneath, is an argillaceous shale, reddish in the 

 upper part and grey in the lower, — thelatter is slightly micaceous. This forms the 

 cliff from the point to a short distance east of the place where the road descends 

 to the beach ; and to this succeeds a red siliceous grit traversed by veins of 

 quartz, and containing iron. The cliff composed of red grit is much concealed. 



The limestones in the vicinity of Torquay are much disturbed, as are also, 

 more or less, all the stratified rocks of the district. These beds are observed 

 to be contorted along the whole coast, from the town to the point opposite the 

 Shag Rock ; they seem, however, to have a general dip away from the old 

 red sandstone, between which and the body of limestone the argillaceous 

 shale is always interposed. 



I have selected two examples of contorted strata near Torquay*, because, 

 though the sections are only about eighty yards apart, and both across the 

 range of the strata, they show the contortions that must have taken place in 

 all directionsf . 



So much confusion exists in the vicinity of Torquay, that no regular dip 

 of the limestones can there be determined. They dip S.S.VV. at an angle of 

 35° near the turnpike, and at the quarry near the baths to the south-west. 

 They are perpendicular, with a north and south direction, at the little hill near 

 Tor Moham, at the Chapel Hill, and under Torwood House. At Stantaway 



* Plate XIX. 



•j- The birds marked in the two figures show the same points of the hill viewed from opposite sides. 



