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ILLUSTRATIONS OF 
before adverted to^ in describing it, as tbat gentleman 
has paid particular attention to the subject. The 
most northern point of the lias formation in Wor- 
cestershire, is near Lower Bentley. From this place 
its line of junction with the red marl passes about 
one mile south-east of Hanbury, and thence at the 
back of Meer Hall to Goose Hill, and on the north 
of the Trench Wood to Crowle, its course being for 
the most part marked by a low range of hills. At 
Crowle is a good section of it, shewing very distinctly 
its junction with the red marl. From Crowle the 
line of junction crosses successively the roads to 
Alcester, Evesham, and Pershore, and then turns due 
south, passing close to Pirton, and crossing Croome 
Park, where it forms a low bank, with the house at 
the foot and the gardens at the top. Beyond Croome 
it continues with great regularity between the fork 
of the Avon and Severn as far as Tewkesbury. To 
the eastward of the line of junction thus indicated, 
the country to the eastern boundary of the county is 
entirely of the lias formation, with the exception of 
the oolitic outlyer of Bredon, and a singular fault in 
the lias, extending from Netherton in the south to near 
Lower Bentley in the north, a distance of 15 miles. 
A narrow strip of red marl is thus exposed, first by 
a valley of elevation varying from half a mile to a 
mile in width, as far as Radford, on the Alcester 
road, and secondly by a fault properly so called, 
extending from Radford to Feckenham, the red marl 
being raised up and forming a long range of hill, with 
the lias abutting against it at the base. 
