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110 I was able to carry away; one or two more were brought by other observers.

Mr. Eglinton also showed me just at the back of the house called Daffodilly at Hay Head, in a little deep ditch or gully overgrown with brambles, some beds of exactly similar sandstone, in which, however, we could find no fossils.

This was overlaid to the west, or in the direction of the old quarries of the Barr limestone, by Coal-measure shale containing a small two-foot coal, and cut off to the east by the Permian red marls, &c. North and north-east of it also Coal-measures containing small beds of coal had been found. These Coal-measures, no doubt, rest unconformably on the upturned and denuded edges of the Silurian rocks, and it is quite possible that the Llandovery sandstone would be found under the greater part of those Coal-measures which spread over the space north-east of the Three Crowns Inn, between the outcrop of the Barr limestone and the Permian rocks which come in on the east side of the Boundary fault. In the Lower Lickey Hills, between Birmingham and Bromsgrove, there is a ridge of quartz rock determined by Sir R. I. Murchison to be altered sandstone of this age. I can add little to the full and accurate description of this rock and neighbourhood