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THE GEOLOGIST. 
■\vliy if slioUs and fish and cvabs lived thorciu, their remains Khoukl 
after death be destroyed by such mineral agencies, in every condition 
of the surface antagonistic to conservation. But whether the whole 
bed— of no mean thickness be it remembered, and evidencing a great 
lapse of time — can furnish no trace of its former life, is yet to be 
proved ; and I do not by any means advise local observers to give up 
search, especially in the lighter-coloured strata. 
This lowest member of the rock-group, known as New Red, is the 
highest, most recent deposit — excepting the gravel of the Severn 
Strait age — crossed by the railway near to the town. 
But at Mount Pleasant, south of Bewdley, the line is taken by tun- 
nelling through the central conglomerate, or pebble-bed rock, which 
fonns the commanding fort of Pendleston, or the High Rock, 
near Bridgnorth, and at Wilden, two miles south-east of Mount 
Pleasant, the upper soft Bed Sandstone is cut into by an excavation, 
the rock-walls of which tower to the height of sixty feet above the line ; 
while at the terminus of the railway, near Hartlebury, the cuttings 
show that the ascending order of geological deposits, which, since we 
crossed the dome of Old Red at the Hill Wood, north of Bewdley, we 
have rigidly kept to, has brought us up to the Waterstones, a sandstone 
rock, easily distinguishable fi'om those we have seen, by its containing 
small shining scales of white indestructable mica. 
I hope no one will look upon this sketch, which an intimate know- 
ledge of the Bridgnorth district enables me to give, as exhaustive of 
the subject, or other than a general introduction, lapon the broadest 
basis, to the geological history of that locality. And among the lessons 
learnt from it, this one I trust, will be the longest remembered — that 
man's enterprise is an instrument in the hand of the Creator, for 
furthering knowledge of His works, and displaj'ing to us, in rock- 
cutting and tiinnelling, the operation of His hands — whispered tiaiths 
of hidden and secret nature — " whether we will hear them or whether 
we will forbear !" 
ON NEW BRACHIOPODA, AND ON THE DEVELOPMENT 
OP THE LOOP IN TEREBRATELLA. 
By Chaeles Moore, F.G.S. 
At the time of the commencement of Mr. Davidson's monograph on 
British Brachiopoda, published by the Palajontogi'aphical Society, 
little had been done towards their systematic arrangement and classi- 
fication. Sowerby had figured many species ; but valuable materials 
were accumulated, and many new forms waiting for description in 
the cabinets of different collectors, which have since been done jus- 
tice to in the above valuable publication. 
