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is the Peagrit series; and thus the connection with Section I is 
obtained. 
The fourth cutting introduces no new strata; but we have 
about ten feet of white, softish limestone, resting upon hard 
crystalline limestone, which is presumably the Peagrit series. 
In that case the limestone above may represent the sandy strata 
(bed 2 of Section I). 
The fifth cutting is at the Withington Station, and is 
entirely through blue and yellow clay. 
In the sixth cutting we again meet with the beds above the 
Peagrit series. Altogether about twenty-five feet are ‘exposed. 
The arenaceous character appears to be less pronounced, and 
the strata are therefore more compact, partaking more of a 
freestone nature. It is quite a question how far the arenaceous 
character of these strata in the Section I may have been brought 
about by the solvent action of percolating rain water causing 
disintegration. 
We have now a considerable break in the sequence of 
strata ; because nothing of the Oolite marl was to be seen in 
the cuttings—at least during my visit. Neither did I detect 
any trace of the Upper Freestone, nor of the Harford Sands, 
which are both so conspicuous on the Bourton line. Appar- 
ently the lowest beds which are exposed belong to the Lower 
Trigonia-grit series, and are equivalent to bed G of the 
Bourton line (Op. cit. p. 110). These beds occur in the eighth 
cutting. It is, however, possible that the base of these beds 
might represent the Upper Freestone, and that the Harford 
Sands might be absent. The Oolite-marl series is not absent 
from the neighbourhood; because some years ago I found 
Terebratula fimbria in Withington Wood in an opening by the 
roadside. 
Leaving the seventh cutting for the present, we will pass 
right into the eighth, and, commencing with the lowest beds, 
work out the sequence of strata up to the Fuller’s Earth. This 
cutting, which is of noble proportions, presents the following 
section :— 
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