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various Gravels, forming a remarkable mound, and having a 

 valley on either side. 



I was informed by my friend, Mr. Robert Tomes, who was 

 with me, that he had several times visited the cutting, while 

 the railway was being made, and that he had seen many large 

 blocks of Chalk, bearing marks of glacial striation. 



Mr. Gavet observes ''A cutting about 250 yards north of 

 Aston cutting is composed entirely of the upper beds of the 

 Lower Lias Shale with a covering of Sand and Clay containing 

 a few erratic boulders of Marlstone, but there is not the least 

 appearance of Oolitic Gravel, or FHnts. 



"The Shale is very arenaceous and resembles that of the 

 cuttings at Mickleton, but is not nearly so fossiliferous. 



"In a cutting on the south side of this hill near the village of 

 Dorn, the first 360 yards are composed of the upper beds of the 

 Lower Lias Shale, containing Fossils quite distinct from those 

 of the Aston cutting; also Ironstone similar to that found at 

 Mickleton North Cutting. The rest of this cutting from Dorn 

 to Moreton is composed of Silicious Sand and Pebbles, and a 

 sub-stratum of Loamy Clay, mixed with small Flints. 



"So that the Aston cutting differs materially from the cuttings 

 north and south of it." 



At Berrington, near Campden, is a pit close to the Railway 

 Bridge, consisting of 3 to 4 feet of Oolitic Gravel, containing 

 with other Upper Lias Fossils, Amm : bifrons, etc., and it is 

 capped with Clay soil. On the surface of the land are large 

 angular Pebbles of N.D. I found one of Millstone Grit, and a 

 Coal Measure Sandstone, with Stigmaria ficoides. 



To the west, before reaching PudHcote Mill, at Goose Hill, 

 527 feet high, I saw some Flints, Jasper, etc., and at Comjiton 

 Scorpion, fine grained Greenstone and Mountain Limestone, 

 with encrinital stems, at an elevation of 607 feet. 



Ebrington HiU is a plateau, about 750 feet high, which is 

 completely covered with grass, rendering investigation very 

 difficult, and although I could find no trace of N.D., as it is 

 met with on the outlier of Meon, it may be, and probably is, 

 there. 



