THE 
RED SANDSTONES, CONGLOMERATES, AND 
MARLS OF DEVONSHIRE. 
BY W. PENGELLY, F.R.S., F.G.S., F.A.S.L., &c. 
When, upwards of a year since, I had the pleasure of directing the 
attention of the members of the Institution to the Red Rocks of 
Devonshire, I stated that they occupy the greater part of our county 
cast of a line extending — with some marked irregularities, — in a 
northerly direction, from the central shores of Torbay to Porlock 
in West Somerset ; that several " outliers " exist, in widely separated 
localities, west of this line, and thus indicate a much wider extension 
of the formation in earlier times ; that they are of littoral origin ; 
that no fossils or organic traces have been recorded as occurring 
in them ; and that they belong to the group of rocks known to 
geologists as the Lower Trias, in other words they lie at the base 
of the great Mesozoic series of formations. 
In now resuming the subject, I purpose confining myself to South 
Devon, and chiefly to the sea-bord between Goodrington Sands, in 
Torbay, and the headland known as the Flat Point, between Exmouth 
and Budleigh Salterton. 
Within the district just named, the Red rocks are of three kinds : 
— Conglomerates, Sandstones, and Marls. Following the cliff 
section, \vc have, in Torbay, Conglomerates and Sandstones with a fe^y 
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