SECTION OF BIRDLIP. 
Some Remarks on a Boring for Water near Birdlip, for the City of 
Gloucester. By W.C. Lucy, F.G.S. Read Jan. 16th, 1884. 
About two years since I had occasion to refer to our 
Proceedings, fully expecting to find a complete Section of 
Birdlip, as I was anxious to compare it with some other Sections 
of the Inferior Oolite of the Cotteswolds. 
Although there were several references made to the various 
visits of the Club, with general remarks on the beds, yet no 
details were given, and I therefore resolved to make a Section, 
in which I have been much aided by two of our members, 
Messrs Hetrs and Foster, who fortunately reside at Birdlip, 
who have accompanied me many times, and who have, at their 
leisure, kindly checked and confirmed my observations. 
After two unsuccessful attempts to give a horizontal Section, 
I determined to adopt five vertical Sections, made at places 
easily accessible, and afterwards to shew them in one. 
Taking the contour of the hill the distance from 
No. 1 to No. 2/is Le Pe: ... 120 yards 
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3” 4 5, 39 5 55 . 155 ” 
» 5tothetopof the hill, neartheInn 275 _,, 
Making a total length of 740 yards, and shewing a dip to 
the south-east of 27 yards. 
Section No. 1 
Is made at the north-west promontory, which juts out into the 
valley, round which is the combe, looking towards Crickley, 
and it attains an elevation of 897 feet. 
