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(3) Professor Phillips (“ Memoir on the Geology of the Malvern 
and Abberley Hills”) notices that the summits crowned by the 
Breccia rise to about the same height, as if marking an ancient 
sea level, and states that they must be regarded as due to the 
violent succussion and reaggregation of local and peculiar rocks. 
That the time of aggregation may be supposed to be that of the 
lowest magnesian conglomerate, and the cause of the succussion, 
the displacement which followed the carboniferous period, and that 
the narent rocks mav be a not far removed metamornhic region 
now invisible. 
(4) Professor Beete Jukes, in his “Memoir on the South Stafford¬ 
shire Coal Field,” defers his opinion to that of Professor Ramsay, but 
states, as his opinion, that the Llandovery Sandstones have not 
travelled many yards from their original site, and that a boss or 
peak or ridge of Silurian Sandstone lies concealed under the 
Permian rocks somewhere close by. 
(5) A careful perusal of Professor’s Hull’s book on the Triassic 
and Permian rocks leads one to believe that he agreed with this 
theory and only deferred his opinion to that of Professor Ramsay. 
I have now placed before you all the facts I have observed, and 
hope that you will freely criticise what I have stated. The 
points are:— 
(1) That we have at the Lickey the same stratified rocks as on 
Clent, i.e., Llandovery Sandstone and Quartzite, and rocks of 
Llandovery age, containing pebbles of Lickey Quartzite, showing it 
rested unconformably on the Cambrian, and lastly, perhaps, Coal 
Measure and Permian Sandstone. 
(2) The presence, on Wyclibury surface, of a very square piece 
of Lickey Quartzite. 
(3) The similarity, as hand specimens, of the Clent igneous rocks 
to those at Nuneaton and the Lickey, being the two localities where 
we can see the rocks of the district covered by the New Red 
Sandstone. 
(4) That, as to the scratched rocks as they were found on the 
surface, they may belong to recent glacial deposits, or, if they do 
belong to the Breccia, the marks may have been caused by the 
February, 1893. 
