THE 
QUARTERLY JOURNAL 
OF 
THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 
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1. On the Guotoey of the Sour Drvon Coast from Torcross to 
ore Cove. By T. G. Bonnzy, D.Sc., F.B.S., See. G. S., 
Professor of Geology in University College, London, and Fellow 
of St. John’s College, Cambridge. (Read November 7, 1883.) 
[Prats I.] 
ConTENTS. 
. Introductory. 
Torcross to the Start Point. 
. Prawle Point and the adjacent coast. 
. Salcombe to the Bolt Head. 
The Bolt Tail and the neighbouring coast. 
. Remarks on the Microscopic Structure of the principal varieties of Rock. 
. On some peculiarities of structure in the Slaty Series. 
. Conclusions as to the Relations of the various Rocks in the above district. 
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1. Introductory. 
Tue wild and picturesque coast which fringes the most southern 
part of Devonshire has already attracted the notice of not a few 
geologists. As, however, a detailed list of their writings, carried 
up to the year 1879, will be found in a valuable paper by Mr. 
Pengelly, published in the ‘ Report and Transactions of the Devon- 
shire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature, and 
Arts’ (vol. xi. p. 319); and as no material addition to our know- 
ledge, so far as I am aware, has since been made, it is needless for 
me to burden the pages of our ‘Journal’ with a copious history of 
the literature of the subject. Suffice it to say that the geology of 
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