222 MR. E. W. BINNEY ON THE PERMIAN BEDS 



purchased of the late Mr. Otho Hulme's trustees, the fol- 

 lowing permian strata were met with in a bore hole : — 



ft. in. 



Drift deposits 96 



Red metals and rock binds 85 



Gray rock 4 6 



Red metals and rock binds, containing shells of the 



genevB, Schizodus and Sakevellia 28 



Gray rock 3 6 



Red metals, containing rock binds 32 6 



Brownishrock 3 



Red metals, containing rock binds 9 



Red and variegated rock, penetrated 150 



411 6 



A little further up the valley of the Medlock, at Jericho 

 Cloughj the late Mr. Bradbury, of the Clayton Colliery, 

 found, in a bore hole, the following strata, most of which are 

 permian, viz.: — 



ft. in. 



Drift deposits 64 6 



^ray yellowish rock 4 



Red shaly marl, with bands of white grit 25 6 



Soft white rock 1 6 



Red floor clay 1 6 * 



Variegated clays 10 6 



Whitish limestone 6 



Red shaly measures, which effervesce in acids 26 



White gritstone 6 



Soft red floor clay 1 3 



White gypsum • (?) 9 



Red and white variegated measures 10 6 



Hard brown rock, containing lime and iron 2 6 



Kind blue shale 6 



White calcareous rock 9 



Soft kind blue measures 9 



Variegated clays 34 6 



* This is, no doubt, the white friable paste, met with in the Collyhurst 

 section. Mr. Bradbury himself told me that he very much questioned its being 

 gypsum. 



