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blocks, save where such lie near the injected veins from which they 

 are derived. To the right of the Teign, the line of boundary between 

 the granite and the Carboniferous rocks passes to the south of Cran- 

 brookFarm and a short distance to the south of the boundary as marked 

 on the Geological- Survey map. A few remains of " Old Gravel " and 

 numerous transported blocks of granite are seen on the side of the 

 hill forming the eastern side of the valley, extending from Whiddon 

 Park towards Moreton ; and blocks of granite lie on the high ground 

 to the east of the summit in Whiddon Park and Moreton Woods, and 

 are scattered on the slope towards the Teign, being more numerous at 

 the top of the hill than near the river ; and these blocks on the hill- 

 side soon cease entirely. To the east of Cranbrook Castle (1110 feet 

 above the sea-level) near Cranbrook Parm, and near Wooston Castle, 

 large transported blocks of granite and Carboniferous rock overlie the 

 Carboniferous beds ; between Wooston Castle and Clifford Bridge the 

 transported blocks are of Carboniferous rock. Kear the cross roads 

 on the left bank above Clifford Bridge, on the road to Pulford, and by 

 the side of the road to Dunsford, gravel again occurs, at the first place 

 formed entirely of small fragments of Carboniferous rock, mostly 

 angular, and occasionally cemented together by oxide of iron in which 

 small fragments of mica exist — at the second place formed of angular 

 fragments of Carboniferous rock of rather large size, and a single 

 block of hard granite (not el van), which was 14 inches long and 

 5 inches thick, and had been much rolled. These beds are from about 

 20 to 50 feet above the Teign (which is there about 300 feet above the 

 sea-level), and probably belong to the " Old Gravel." As the present 

 gravel of the bed of the Teign contains near this spot a proportion of 

 about fifteen fragments of granite to eighty-five of Carboniferous rock, 

 it is evident that these gravels are not derived from that source. 

 Between Clifford Bridge and TJppercot quarry, near Chudleigh, I have 

 not found traces of gravels overlying the Carboniferous rocks ; and in 

 that quarry there is a deposit composed of chalk -flints, rolled quartz, 

 Greensand, iron from the Greensand, rolled black siliceous pebbles, 

 and small black specks which appear to be particles of schorl ; at 

 Waddon Barton quarry, in the same vicinity, a similar gravel is men- 

 tioned by Sir H. De la Beche*, and at Rydon quarry, near Kingsteign- 

 ton, gravel composed of similar rocks is found deposited against the 

 face of an ancient cliff or escarpment. Near Chudleigh Bridge the 

 Miocene beds of the Bovey Clay commence. 



Along the Wray Brook and Bovey Eiver the hills are for the most 

 part so covered with herbage and wood that sections are not often 

 obtainable. A cutting in the "Sentry" at Moreton Hampstead, 

 about 80 feet from the Wray Brook (660 feet above the sea-level), 

 gives a section of fine gravel with felspar, schorl, and quartz in thin 

 laminae lying nearly horizontally ; this is probably " Old Gravel," 

 though the point is not certain. Along the upper part of the Bovey 

 Brook and its feeders no " Old Gravel" has been noticed. On the 

 left bank of the Hayne River, about a mile to the south-east of Ma- 

 naton, at the foot of the Biddy Hill, granite is seen in situ, and 

 ^ Eeport, p. 410. 



