THE 
QUARTERLY JOURNAL 
OF 
THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 
PROCEEDINGS 
OF 
THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 
Fresruary 23, 1848 (continued). 
The following communication was then read :— 
2. On the Geology of Ripeway, near WevmMoutTH. By Cuar es 
Henry Wesron, Esq., Barrister-at-Law, B.A. Cant., and F.G.S. 
Durine the last summer I directed my attention to the geological 
features of the country in the neighbourhoed of Weymouth, not with 
the idea of adding any fresh information to that which we already 
possessed of this district, but rather from the desire of working out 
for myself in the field what had so often interested me in the closet. 
While examining however this district generally, and those localities 
where the strata were so considerably exposed by the operations of 
the Wilts, Somerset and Weymouth Railway, I particularly studied 
the supposed point of junction of the Portland stone and the chalk 
of Ridgway Hill. At this spot I saw much to excite my surprise, 
and what, with my preconceived notions of the theoretic structure of 
the district, I found difficult to understand. 
Having, from a close and rigid examination, come to a conclusion 
im my own mind respecting the character of the formations disclosed 
in this locality, I was anxious to communicate my thoughts to Pro- 
fessor Sedgwick ; and in a letter addressed to him in September last, 
I drew his attention to the peculiarly interesting nature and extent 
of the geological stratification which I had found existing between the 
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