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At Patricroft, at a height of 60 feet the Till is seen, and 

 was found 15 feet thick in Messrs. Lancaster's coal pit, a 

 little to the north of the line. 



Then come the cuttings in the Trias at Eccles, which 

 extend to Weaste, where the Till soon comes in at Seedley 

 Print Works, a little to the north, where, at about 97 feet 

 above the sea, Till was found 71 feet in thickness resting 

 upon Trias. The Till extends through Cross-lane, past 

 Oldfield-road to Ordsall Station, where it is succeeded by 

 the Valley Gravel across Sal ford to the Victoria Station in 

 Manchester, and it there again comes in and is found next 



the Workhouse, at a height of about 100 feet, as follows : — 



ft. 



Till, bluish colour 9 



Till, brown 2 



Brown Gravel 2 



Trias 



13 

 By the kindness of my friend Mr. Morton, F.G.S., I am 

 enabled to give a general idea of the drift on the banks of 

 the Mersey, which may be rightly described as a bed of Till, 

 about 60 feet in maximum thickness, with a few feet of 

 sand above and below it. Taking the cuttings on the rail- 

 way as previously given, the higher parts, such as the 

 sections through the Trias at Olive Mount and the Trias 

 and Coal Measures of Huyton, Winston, Rainhill, and Sutton, 

 although only attaining an elevation of 205 feet above the 

 sea, we have seen that there is little drift covering those 

 strata. Tlie deep cutting between Parkside and Kenyon 

 Junction, attaining an elevation of 112 feet, is the only 

 place where the sands are found apparently lying over the 

 Till, but they cannot now be there seen so as to ascertain 

 whether they overlie or intercalate with it. From ;Kenyon 

 Junction to Ordsall, Till with Valley Gravels, sometimes 

 covering it, underlies the whole district, with the exception 

 of the Trias near Eccles. 



