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derivative from, and similar in substance to, the regular beds imme- 
diately subjacent, it is not always easy to distinguish those portions 
of the latter, which are highly loaded with pebbles, from the di- 
luvian gravel. In this gravel there occur also large boulders of 
chert, with casts of entrochi, and large blocks of various kinds of 
porphyry, which latter are most abundant towards the bottom of 
the hill near Bromsgrove. 
The Upper Lickey range, in that part which is intersected by 
the turnpike road, is composed wholly of new red sandstone and 
superficial gravel ; in other parts it contains also strata belonging to 
the old red sandstone formation, and affords quarries of the calca- 
reous breccia called cornstone, in several places further westward, 
along the slope and base of its east frontier. The line of this 
frontier appears to have been the scene of great disturbances at a 
period antecedent to the deposition of the new red sandstone.* 
Subjacent to this ridge is that of the Lower Lickey, and the most 
advantageous position for seeing its connection with the surround- 
ing country is the crest of the Upper Lickey, which overhangs it 
with an escarpment facing nearly the north-east. Its appearance 
from hence at once marks it to be composed of materials wholly 
different from any other rock in the neighbourhood. A narrow 
ridge of camel-back’d hills rises suddenly in the plain beneath us, 
presenting on a small scale the wavy and pointed outline of a chain 
of primitive or transition formations, and extending in a straight 
line about two miles from north to south, whilst the greatest breadth 
of its base scarcely exceeds a quarter of a mile ; it is intersected 
* Quarries of corn-stone are wrought to obtain lime for agriculture at four or five spots 
about three miles north-west of the Lower Lickey, between the village of Frankley and 
the base of the Clint and Hagley hills, on the south side of the road that leads from 
Hagley to Hale# Owen. * 
