117 
Same cutting, further West, where the beds are elevated, but South side. 
ft. ins 
18—Freestone fully exposed ... xe Are Sa 9 0 
19—Hard stone.. ie as 0 10 
20—Marly fait with Sehinea “Tereb. fini small 
crushed Rhynch... ne! af 0 2 
21—Light-coloured Oolitic stone, wate Bhaji 1 0 
22—Brown clayey Marl ag or Ly 
23—Very hard whitey-brown stone ... See: 
One of the chief points about Section II was the fact of 
finding that bed 17 had its upper portion slightly bored. Weare 
enabled too to see the exact position occupied by the Harford 
Sands, and we are able to correlate distinctly beds 11, 12, 18, 
14 of this section, with beds 1, 2, 3, 4 of Section I, so that the 
relative position of the other beds with regard to the beds 
exhibited at Notgrove Station can be easily explained. We see 
in this section that there are two distinct layers of yellow sands, 
10 and 12, and two of sandy rock, 11 and 13. Below these we 
have 14, which is a yellow marly debris, or a kind of paste, 
which seems to be partly a mixture of sands and partly of 
detritus, probably derived from the wasting of bed 17. In 
fact its appearance is that of bed 17 (Freestone) in a rotten 
condition. I should imagine that bed 14 is in reality the 
uppermost bed of what is called the Upper Freestone in other 
places, although it is bed 17 that has its upper portion bored. 
But the mere fact of a bed being more or less bored can in 
reality by itself be no evidence of identity of horizon. The 
sands however are a very well marked line in this part of the 
county, but as they do not occur in the Stroud area, the deter- 
mination of the actual top of the Upper Freestone deposit, or 
Fimbria stage, in this district would be a matter of uncertainty. 
It is noticeable that the thickness of the sandy partings varies 
very considerably, even in-a few yards, in the same cutting. 
Two more sections which I now append, No. III, taken at 
the East end of the third cutting, West of Bourton-on-the- 
Water, and No. IV, at the West end, will more fully explain the 
relation of the sands to the beds above, and will also show their 
variation in thickness. 
