Note 10 — PANORAMA.

The silurian rocks to the west of Abergele, have recently been brought under the notice of the Geological Society by Mr. J. E. Bowmall. That gentleman, in an able paper presented to the society, states that his attention was first directed to these strata by the Rev. J. Price, of Llysfaen. They occur immediately south of the narrow belt of carboniferous limestone which skirts the coast from the Great Ormeshead to the point of Ayr, and the estuary of the Dee. The section described by Mr. Bowmall presents the following series of beds in descending order, many of the fossils discovered in them being identified with those found in the Ludlow formation of Shropshire:—1. Carboniferous limestone. 2. Light coloured loam enclosing rounded pebbles of greenish, slightly micaceous sandstone with shells. 3. Bed of the same sandstone. 4. Red marl of considerable thickness, with imbedded angular and waterworn pebbles, and numerous fossils. 5. Arenaceous conglomerate, consisting partly of the pebbles of the underlying limestone. 6. Thin beds of compact reddish limestone, sometimes very arenaceous, and containing a few fossils. 7. Blue clay. 8. Blue clay slate, occasionally enclosing layers of organic remains, and forming the geological base of the country.