On the “Passage-Beds” in the neighbourhood of Woolhope, Herefordshire, and on the discovery of a New Species of Eurypterus , and some New Land-plants in them

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The “Passage-beds” between the Upper Silurian rocks and the Old Red Sandstone, on the outer area of the Woolhope valley of elevation, although they have been already noticed by Sir R. Murchison, Professor Phillips, Strickland, Symonds, and myself, at Hagley, Tarrington, Ledbury, and Perton have not in this district received the full attention they deserve; for although they are of comparatively limited vertical thickness when compared with the finer and more complete sections at Downton and the Ledbury tunnel, they occupy a larger extent round the valley of Woolhope than has been previously recognized, and contain some new and interesting fossils At Putley, near the road from Ledbury to Woolhope, to the N.E. of the latter village, a remarkable bed of very hard horizontal sandstone, composed mainly of small pieces of quartz in a sandy matrix, overlying a stratum of white and yellow clay, used for making tiles, may be seen in a brickyard to the depth of about 3 or 4 feet, the blocks of sandstone averaging about 2 feet in thickness. I could find no fossils in it, and it had very much the aspect of a volcanic rock; but my friend Professor Phillips, to whom I sent a specimen, recognized it at once, and states that he believes it to have been derived from Trappean and other Plutonic rocks, though it may be presumed to be one of the bands of sandstone belonging to this series. About two miles to the south of Putley, at a farm

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