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this latter too having been laid open in some shallow excavations. 
The boundary of the sand, between the two spots above noted, 
seems to be along the hedge joining them (as engraved on the 
six-inch Ordnance Map), on the northern side of which the London 
Clay seems to form the gently rising ground, of which we may 
know more when the cemetery is established. 
As to other parts, I decline to express any decided opinion 
regarding the boundary of the sand. Clay occurs along Wrythe 
Lane, to the west, and presumably forms the surface up to near 
Farm Cottage, close to the border of the sewage-farm. On the 
south, clay occurs at The Wrythe, and the sand therefore seems 
to end off somewhere in the fields northward of the former 
gas-works. 
Perhaps the most interesting section was given by the excava- 
tion for the sludge-tank, just eastward of Farm Cottage, as many 
bones were found there at a considerable depth. The section 
was only in part open at the time of my first visit, and less so 
later. The Drift deposit is said to have been some 17 ft. deep, 
consisting mostly of sand, and the bones occurred 16 or 17 ft. 
down, in a loamy or clayey bed of a somewhat peaty character, 
whilst a specimen of the earth immediately below this, and rest- 
ing on the London Clay, was a brownish-grey clay or sandy clay, 
with small bits of flint and of chalk, the latter mostly rounded, 
the bed being apparently made up largely of London Clay. 
The most interesting find was a skull of Rhinoceros, and this 
curiously illustrated the absence of large stones in the sandy ° 
Drift; for the workmen used it as a firm rest for a plank whereon 
to trundle their barrows, an ignominious position from which it 
was rescued by Mr. W. W. Gale, the Surveyor to the Council, to 
whose ready help and freely given information we are much 
indebted. Luckily little damage had been done to the skull. 
At the deep pump-well or tank just to the south, the sandy 
and loamy Drift was pierced to the depth of 18 ft., and then 
London Clay to a further depth of 37 ft. In the earth from the 
excavations, heaped up further southward, fragments of Nautilus 
were found in the septaria, or calcareous concretionary masses of 
stone, which were plentiful in the London Clay. Iron-pyrites, 
sometimes in the form of fossil wood, and ‘l'’eredo borings also 
occurred. 
Later on a large opening was made just northward of the 
sludge-tank, for the filter-beds, and a good section was to be 
seen for some time to a depth of about 10 ft. in the southern 
part. The beds shown were as follows :— 
Brownish loam, with a few stones; the junction 
with the bed below slightly waved. 
Sand, without stones, rather clayey at the base. 
Sand said to occur below, 
