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of the surging torrent as it dashed down the rapids. Here we saw 
the Nubian men and boys plunge into the angry waters “ and 
shoot the rapids,” some carrying flags on logs of wood, and others 
without anything. It was a most novel and exciting scene. A 
relay of boats was now in attendance to take us to the eastern 
shore of the river, to a point where the donkeys were waiting to 
carry us back by the road which skirts the eastern bank of the 
river, in sight of the smaller rapids and innumerable islets, all the 
way down affording the most magnificent and varied views of this 
wild scenery. 
(To be continued.) 
THE DEVONIAN BOOKS OF ILFEACOMBE AND 
BABNSTAPLE, 
BY THE REV. W. HUNT PAINTER. 
( Concluded f rom page 89.) 
I now come to the uppermost beds of the Devonian Bocks—the 
Pilton Beds. About two miles from Stoby Quarry and one from the 
village of Pilton is a disused quarry, called Orchard Quarry. As 
some of the fossils found here were very soft, and thus liable to be 
destroyed by friction, the question was, “ How were they to be 
conveyed away in safety ?” This problem was quickly solved by 
the discovery of an empty can that had been used for some kind of 
preserved meat or fruit, into which the most fragile fossils were 
packed. Thus, nothing comes amiss to a geologist; even cast off 
tins are of use to him. 
The principal fossils which I obtained here, through Mr. 
Hambling’s assistance, were as follows, specimens of which are 
exhibited:— Orthis , Sp. ? ; Encrinital stems; Productus prcelongus; 
Chonetes , Sp. ? ; Strophalosia , Sp. ? ; Productus, Sp. ? ; Turbo, Sp. ?. 
A few weeks after I had visited these localities I heard of 
another quarry in which the Pilton Beds are exposed, to which I 
have given the name of the Upcot Quarry, and after a little search 
I discovered it in an out-of-the-way place, Mr. Hambling having 
May, 1893. 
