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ILLUSTRATIONS OF 
The unstratified granite, is the principal forma- 
tion on the eastern side ; but we no sooner reach 
the summit and approach the western side than we 
come to a new class of stratified rocks, consisting 
principally of sandstone, and transition limestone, in 
which shells and other organic remains are found. 
This causes a great difference in the aspect of the 
eastern and western sides of Malvern Hills, — a differ- 
ence, which the most careless wanderer on the summit 
of these hills cannot have failed to observe. 
To this cause is also to be ascribed the difference 
in the chemical composition of the springs on the 
two sides of the hills : — the rare purity of those on 
the eastern, or Worcestershire, side ; and the selenitic 
impregnation in those of the western, or Hereford- 
shire side.^ 
The stratified rocks of the western side of the 
Malvern chain take a parallel direction to that of the 
range, and consist of alternating strata of sandstone 
and transition limestone,^ but their dip is very irregu- 
lar. The eminences that extend in a north-east 
direction, from the End Hill to Knightwick including 
the bold headland of the Storrage, consist of a gritty 
' The springs of the country on the western side of the Teme in the vicinity of 
Chfton, where the rocks are of the old red sandstone and transition Hmestone series, 
are highly impregnated with calcareous matter; and Southstone's Rock between 
Clifton and Stanford, is a local formation of travertine, deposited by the water that 
formerly flowed over the rock. 
2 Numerous fossils such as alcyonites, madreporites, coralloids, chain coral, and 
terebratulites, with occasionally vertebrse of the encrinite, and fragments of orthoce- 
ratites, are found in the upper beds of the lime. The Asaphus caudatus, also 
occurs, and the great trilobite has been found, though rarely, in the strata at 
Ledbury. - 
