LIAS OF ENGLAND AND WALES : 
to be a remanie bed, and therefore to be grouped more appro- 
priately with the Lower Lias than the Rhsetic Beds, suggesting 
slight unconformable overlap of the Lias. (See p. 151.) 
Nearer Gloucester, a cutting in the same railway, not far from 
the main road, showed higher beds, comprising clays, with here 
and there a band of limestone, yielding Gryphcea arcuata, Rhyn- 
chonella calcicosta, and bones of Ichthyosaurus. 
In the Ship Canal east of Hempstead, blue and grey marly 
shales are exposed, *whi!e at the brickyard and adjoining gas- 
works on the south, blue micaceous clay with Gryph(Ba arcuata 
has been exposed to a depth of 25 feet. In the old brickyard 
near Llanthony Priory, Gloucester, G. arcuata and varieties, were 
obtained by John Jones,* together with Ammonites suggesting the 
zone of A. obtusus. Mr.. Lucy records the finding of A. stellaris 
by the canal at Hempstead wharf, and also at Over, so that 
Gloucester appears to be situated on the zone of A. obtusus. More- 
over the evidence goes so prove that the series, upwards from the 
zone of A. planorbis, contains no important mass of limestones. 
A boring for water, made in 1883, at Westgate Street, Glou- 
cester, proved the following beds, which were recorded by Mr. 
Lucyf : 
THICKNESS. DEPTH. 
FT. IN. FT. IN. 
Made ground and gravel - 16 16 
f Hard and soft blue and grey clay 154 170 
Very hard stone - 50 1/50 
Clay - 2 177 
Stone - - 1 6 178 6 
Clay and shale, with shells and 
pyrites - 48 6 227 
Stone with Ammonites, Pecten, 
and Gryphcea arcuata - 3 227 3 
Blue clay 'with GryphcKa, &c. - 36 9 264 
Shaly clay with Astarte, Ceri- 
thium, Avicula iruequivalvis, 
I Gryphcpa - - 24 288 
Lower Lias - <( Clay with Ammonites semi- 
coslatus - 60 294 
Grey clay - 12 306 
Grey stone - - 22 308 2 
Hard clay - - - 3 10 312 
Clay with Ammonites, Avicula, 
Gryphao, and Lima - - 46 3166 
Clay with Am. semicostrifnx, 
Grypheea - - 12 6 329 
Clay - - 8 337 
Clay with Cerithivm, Pleuromya 3 340 
Hard clay with Tornatella or 
L Cylindrites - - - 10 6 350 6 
At Badgworth we find clays with nodular limestone.?, yielding 
Ammonites bisiilcatus, Gryphaa, &c. ; and Dr. Wright notes the 
occurrence of beds representing the zone of A. Turner i.$ Occa 
* Proc. Cotteswold Club, vol. iii., Supplement 4to. 
t Ibid., vol. viii. p. 2 13. 
J Lias Ammonites (Pal. Soc.), p. 4". 
