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cularly near St. Kenelms and Hagley, some masses having 

 a thickness of fifty and sixty feet, others not more than six 

 or eight; at Garnow Green, near St. Kenelms, there are 

 extensive lime works in this rock, an account of which may 

 suffice for those at other localities." 



" The beds dip very slightly to the south, and are separated 

 from each other by sandy marls and clay. The greater part 

 of this rock is made up of angular fragments of a pre- 

 existing, very compact limestone, which, from the corals and 

 other fossils found in it, proves to be the carboniferous lime- 

 stone. In some parts of the quarries the rock consists of 

 concretions of marl and fragments of sandstone and grits, 

 with coal plants, imbedded in a pink calcareous grit ; but in 

 others, of small pebbles of quartz and still older rocks, enve- 

 loped in a red ferruginous, earthy basis, penetrated in all 

 directions by white, crystallized carbonate of lime. The 

 matrix and cement are throughout very calcareous, and the 

 colour of the rock varies with that of the ingredients, from 

 a reddish tinge, to shades of yellow and white. This con- 

 glomerate follows all the sinuosities and promontories of the 

 Clent hills, as is well seen between the hills of Romsley and 

 Walton, where associated with the red sandstone, it enters 

 into a deep recess. It also folds round Hagley park, (near 

 the parsonage,) accommodating its outline to the form of the 

 hills, where it has been described by the Rev. J. Yates, as a 

 calcareous breccia, consisting of grains of quartz, decompos- 

 ing felspar, and limestone. Transverse sections, from north 

 to south, across the strata, are exhibited on the sides of the 

 roads, which ascend to the Clent hills by St. Kenelms, or by 

 Hunnington, and expose several lower calcareous courses, 

 separated by argillaceous red marls and'sandstone. Calca- 

 reous bands prevail so much in this district, re-occurring at 

 intervals in the scarpments, through a thickness of many 

 hundred feet, that if thev were all included in this division, 



