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expose the underlying beds, which at the former locality consist in 

 part of volcanic ash. On the east of OgweU this limestone is over- 

 lain by Culm-measures, as already stated when describing these 

 Carbonaceous rocks, thrown down apparently against the nearly 

 vertical limestone of Connator, on the east, by a fault. Three other 

 small masses of limestone are seen to the north-east of Connator, 

 one of which, near Woolborough Church, has afforded a fine series 

 of organic remains, many of which are quite local*. 



On the east of the Ogwell and Ipplepen limestone the lower slates 

 are faulted up, and form high ground about Dainton School-house, 

 and between the school and Whitborough on the east. These slates 

 throw off the limestone of Kings Kerswell on the north, which dips 

 under some higher slates at the village, and the limestone of Bulley 

 Barton on the south. This latter appears to be the northern edge 

 of the Marldon mass exposed from beneath the overlying IN'ew Red 

 sandstone and conglomerate, the small protrusions of Compton, 

 Combe Pishacre, and the narrow outcrop at Battleford showing 

 their connexion beneath ; and, the upcast on the east of the lime- 

 stone of Ipplepen being much less than it is at Dainton School-house 

 and the Two-mile Oak, the two limestone masses at Bow Hill 

 are brought nearly into contact, a thin strip of slates only inter- 

 vening. These slates dip to the south-east under the limestone of 

 Bulley Barton as it curves round by Bow Hill, the Ipplepen lime- 

 stone dipping against them. The mass of limestone which protrudes 

 through the Trias at Compton, together with two other small pro- 

 trusions at Gallows Gate, connect in a similar manner the Marldon 

 limestone with that of the Torquay district ; and this, again, has its 

 deep-seated connexion rendered probable by the protruding mass 

 south-west of Deccombe. The limestone of Kings Kerswell is 

 manifestly a portion of that of Ogwell, separated only by the 

 slates thrown up by the fault which bounds the Ogwell limestone 

 on the east, as are likewise the smaller masses of Connator, Wool- 

 borough, &c., which occupy the faulted ground south of Newton 

 Bushell. 



The Torquay limestone need not detain us, as it is well known 

 and has been described in detail in a special paper by the late Sir 

 Henry De la Bechef. An anticlinal axis extending from Upton to 

 the coast at Meadfoot Sands brings up the lower beds, which here 

 contain some grit beds, resemble some of the equivalent beds of 

 Whitesand Bay, and contain many of the same fossils as those 

 from the Looe district — among others, Pleurodictymn prohlematicum, 

 Aihytis concentrica, Spiriferina cristata, Leptcena laticosta, Orthis hip- 

 parionycc, Bellerophon hisulcatus, &c. In the cliff between Meadfoot 

 sands and the Thatcher rock two fine scales of PhiUolepis concen- 

 tricus, Ag., have been found by Mr. Pengelly, and are now in his 



* I had an opportunity of spending a day in examining the rocks in this 

 vicinity with Mr. Eeete Jukes ; and the conclusion we ai'rived at was, that the 

 rocks to the east of the turnpike-road were not Culm-measures as they are 

 coloured on our maps. 



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