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which is the largest I have observed on these hills. Many of the 
fragments have been derived from stratified beds of ash, and from 
the Llandovery Sandstone, Beach Kock, and Quartzite. Three 
specimens have scratches on them, but though I have picked up 
during the last three years many thousands of specimens, these are 
the only scratched rocks I can find. 
The stones are throughout mingled in apparent confusion—a 
fragment which is not angular is rarest. Many of the stratified 
specimens are square or oblong, with straight cut sides, and their 
edges are so sharp and well defined that one might imagine the 
specimens had only recently been detached from the parent rock. 
It is rare to find a well-rounded fragment. Some are of very soft 
material, e.g., what I think are Permian and Coal Measure Sand¬ 
stone, but, so far, these only appear to be deposited on Wychbury. 
Mr. John Amphlett has given me from his diary particulars of 
an excavation made on the hill on the S.E. side of his garden, 
which I give as an independent observation of the angularity of the 
rocks. The corners of the hole were exactly N. S. E. and W.—size 
13' x 9' 6" x 9' 6" deep. On the N.W. side the measures were 
stratified and dipped to W. at an angle of over 30°. The rock was 
very hard, but crumbling when excavated, and interspersed with 
various sized pieces of rock, which were either not at all or very 
slightly rounded. Some other facts he told me. showing considerable 
earth movements in this district, are interesting. In July, 1870, 
having noticed numerous depressions in the ground at the top of 
Clatterbach, the valley between Clent and Walton, he had two 
holes made, each 22ft. deep. The top was soft, red, loamy clay 
and then fine grey rock (Permian). The rock was in large blocks, 
cracked in every direction, ■and the bottom of the excavation showed 
narrow cracks of unknown depth. Also, some years since, a Clent 
man was working in a quarry near St. Kenelm’s, which is in the 
same line. He accidently dropped his crowbar. It disappeared 
down a crack, and he heard it striking first one side, and then the 
other, until the sound became less and less, and died awav. 
I have now shown you that the measures are stratified, and 
consist of angular fragments, not at all or but little rounded, and the 
February, 1393. 
