II. It is about a mile across the Lower Lias, on which the villages of North Cave and Hotham are situated, to another gently-rising ground which ascends out of Hotham Park to the eastward in a beautiful sloping bank, and being tastefully planted with stately trees, contributes very much to the charm of the scenery. Coming in with my hammer to the ancient village, in the bright and odorous evenings of midsummer, I have often been arrested by the sweetness of this place; and, enamoured of its serene and peaceful beauty, I have loitered to admire its dark plantations, and the greensward slope that I am now describing, and the illuminated wold rising high in the distance. It is the low escarpment of the Middle Lias which declines thus pleasantly into the park at Hotham. A.s we go out of North Cave towards Beverley, this bank may be observed to rest upon soft blue shales, which have hitherto supplied no fossils. When we begin to ascend it, we may turn into a copse on the right-hand side and study the section in a marl-pit, or we may notice the roadside cutting. In either case, we shall observe that the beds change as follows:—From blue shales at the bottom and lower part of the ascent, through brown earthy-looking shales and sand with irregular broken bands of nodular clay-ironstone, one of which enclosed a cast of Unicardium cardioides, to a hard rock-bed of the true Marlstone, two or three feet in thickness, which again is capped at the top of the ascent by a very rusty, rubbishy, and ferruginous rock.