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long duration), the water became logged with marsh and other 
aquatic growth until a lacustrine and peaty deposit was formed to 
a thickness of 15 or 20 feet, of which the following is a section :— 
*SECTION OF PEATY DEPOSIT IN BOTTOM OF VALLEY. 
O. D., 307 feet. 
Section running nearly N. and 8. 
Fr. In. 
1.—Top soil, grass and yellow sandy clay 1 0 
2.—Peaty deposit and white marly wash 
(more peat than marl) ~=- Ftak 3G 
3.—A succession of loops of marl and peat, 
becoming more marly at base, 
with wood and land and fresh 
water shells near the top i: a 
Resting on— 
4.—Blue Lias clay, greyish on top, becoming 
bluer at base at sak 
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The stump of a tree was seen at the base of No. 2, on N. side, 
resting on Marl, and from its gnarled roots and reddish colour, 
probably that of a fir-tree. The wood was thoroughly soaked 
through and rotten. 
Many shells, Helix nemorosa, Bythinia, &c., were picked out — 
from No. 3, together with hazel nuts. And about the middle of — 
the section, a band of concretionary marly pellets occurred, f 
The most important find of all was that of the bones of the 
Urus or Bos primigenius, at the base of the Peaty Marl and 
resting upon the old land surface of the Lower Lias clay. They 
consisted of two jaws, two thigh bones, a blade-bone and rib of 
that extinct ox. Since then, near the same spot, have been 
discovered the skull, with its large and perfect horn cores, some 
more femora, several vertebre, a jaw and other bones, so that we 
have here the remains of certainly two, if not more, skeletons of 
the Urus. 
* Vide Plate No. 2 (from Photograph taken by Mr. G. Norman). 
