507 
Mr. Buc'kland on the Quartz Rock , &c. 
and beg to lay before the Society the following results, which with 
his assistance I was enabled to obtain. 
I shall designate the ridge of hills which more peculiarly demand 
our attention by the name of the Lower Lickey, to distinguish it from 
the more elevated range of the Bromsgrove or Upper Lickey, which 
overhangs it on the south-west, forming the highest summit and 
great land-mark of the surrounding country. This Bromsgrove or 
Upper Lickey range stretches from north-west towards south-east, 
at the distance of about eight miles from the bed of the Severn, and 
divides the upper part of the vale of Worcester from the more 
elevated plains of Birmingham ; having its north-west termination 
in the Clint and Hagley hills near Stourbridge, and being continuous 
thence south-eastward to Tardebig, on the east of Bromsgrove, 
whence it stretches by Feckenham forest to the Ridgeway on the 
west of Alcester, and there slopes off into the vale of the Avon above 
Evesham. It will be seen by reference to the annexed map, that 
the road from Bromsgrove to Birmingham crosses nearly at right 
angles through both the Upper and Lower Lickey ridges, and in 
the valley between them is an inn, from which their examination 
may be conveniently conducted. 
The Upper Lickey ridge is composed chiefly of sand and loose 
sandstone, belonging to the new red sandstone, or red rock marl 
formation ; and some of its strata are extensively charged with 
pebbles that agree in substance with the quartz rock of the Lower 
Lickey, and are mixed with other pebbles of common white quartz, 
black and variegated jasper, flinty and chloride slate, many varieties 
of porphyry, and of grey and variegated compact and granular 
sandstone. Similar pebbles are also accumulated in vast abundance 
on the surface of these sandy strata, forming thereon irregular and 
unstratified masses of diluvian gravel, which being in some cases 
