CUAP. III. 



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thick. This layer did not contain fragments 

 of any kind ; but beneath it there was a la3er 

 of mould, 1 J inch in thickness, full of fragments 



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Fig. 5. 



Section, reduced to half the natural scale, of the vegetahle mould 

 in a field, drained and reclaimed fifteen years previously; A, 

 turf; B, vegetable mould without any stones; C, mould with 

 fragments of burnt marl, coal-cinders and quartz pebbles ; 

 D, sub-soil of black, peaty sand with quartz pebbles. 



of burnt marl, consjiicuous from their red 

 colour, one of which ijcar tlie 1;ottom was an 



