PALEOZOIC DISTRICTS OF WEST SOMERSET. 541 
the highroad; the surface-stones everywhere consist of red, buff, 
brownish, whitish, greenish, or grey fissile or flaggy fine-grained 
grits, generally of sombre tints. 
By the road from Porlock and Oare Hills to Oareford grey and 
purplish or red fine-grained flaggy grits are evidenced by numerous 
surface-stones. Ata bend in the road, not shown in the map, just 
above the East Lynn Valley, dark grey and red fine-grained grits 
and schistose beds of the Foreland group exhibit contrary dips of 
about W. 10° 8S. and 8. 20° E., at angles apparently conforming to 
the slope of the hill. In the valley below the above observation, 
dark grey Lynton grits, even-bedded and evenly jointed, with occa- 
sional grey schistose intercalations, are exposed by the Hast Lynn, 
and in little hills or crags of a somewhat conical shape, which are 
so characteristic of the Lynton grits, and, as before stated, occur near 
their junction with the Hangman group in this valley. By the 
stream and in the crags the Lynton beds dip 8.E. and E.S.E., gene- 
rally at an angle of 55°. At Oareford houses grey schists strike S. 20° 
W.., apparently dipping E. 20°S. at from 30° to 50°. Near Withy- 
combe Farm purplish-grey Lynton grits strike in a north-easterly 
direction. North of Withycombe Farm bluish schistose grits dip 
K. 40° 8. at 40°. 
At about half a mile north of Withycombe Farm (fig. 4) the cha- 
racter of the ground alters, being marshy and much lower about Oare. 
This change is due to a great fault crossing the Oareford road below 
the contrary dips (exhibited by the Foreland grits, as before stated), 
and probably continuing along the valley to the north of Cloutsham, 
and thence by Bickham to Withycombe. Continuing this line west- 
ward to the coast at a point north of the camp (between Countes- 
bury and Lynmouth), where evidences of fault are conspicuous in 
the cliffs, we find that it separates Foreland grits on the north from 
Lynton beds (with tolerably steady southerly dip) on the south, the 
straight boundary line between the divisions being apparently only 
broken in two places by fringing masses of Lynton beds thrust up 
with the Foreland grits on which they rest—viz. for more than a 
mile near Combe Farm (sheet 27), and eastward of Oare. The 
conformable superposition of the Lynton beds on the Foreland 
group is best seen near Oare. By the farmyard on the north bank 
of the East Lynn at Oare, hard lilac, buff, and grey fine-grained 
grits with reddish markings, and jointed in all directions, are 
exposed in a quarry, and dip 8.E. at 30°. From this quarry north- 
ward to the highroad, by the gully which usurps the place of the 
path shown on the map, Foreland grits are evidenced by a thick head 
of characteristic stones. 
At about five chains eastward of the farmhouse fine-grained 
grey even-bedded Lynton grits and grey schists dip S.E. at 40° by 
the stream, and are shown further on preserving the same direction 
of dip at increasing angles. This upcast mass of Lynton beds makes 
a marked feature at its junction with the Foreland grits on which 
it rests, forming a steep ridge that trends N.E. to about ten chains 
from the main road, whence the boundary deflects with a minor fea- 
