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Dotted promiscuously about the moor are heds of Brick Earth 
sometimes of considerable extent. Half way to Bawdrip, where- 
the line crosses the main road, one of these beds descends firm. 
and hard to a considerable depth, while close beneath the hill in 
Bawdrip itself it becomes very soft, and is much charged with water. 
On the bank of King’s Sedgemoor Drain, the borings gave :— 
Ft. In. 
Brick Earth i el 
Bluish Silt ‘ie sent, Sey O 
Peat (decomposed) 6 0 
Gritty Clay nes air, Sette 
Total... | ABO 
and lastly the Red Marl of the Trias. There is a belief in the 
locality that in places a vegetable bed underlies the clay. This 
seemed to be borne out by a boring sunk close to the crossing of 
the Great Western Railway, which disclosed a thin bed of brownish 
coloured sand, containing remains of a species of jointed reed ; 
the specimens, unfortunately, fell to pieces. Among these remains. 
a Saurian’s tooth was also found. In cutting the side drains a 
thin layer of clay, a fraction of an inch in thickness, was met 
with some two feet below the surface of the ground. It was ofa 
bright blue colour, entirely different from that above and below it, 
and extended over that portion of the line which is upon the 
moor, and may, perhaps, be a memorial of some great flood or: 
inundation in bygone times. 
We now pass to the most important portion of the Geology of 
the railway. The first cutting, lying almost directly north of 
Bawdrip Church, is of very slight extent, being only a few chains. 
long, and 14ft. in the deepest place. It is entirely in the Red 
Marl, whose denuded surface probably rises in a gradual slope 
from the point where it was previously met with beneath the 
bank of King’s Sedgemoor Drain. The Red Marl was also 
touched in the foundations of the road-bridge directly north of 
Bawdrip Church: 
