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There ai'e some large Millstuiie Grit and Lias boulders. 

 Gneiss, fine Quartz, Brownstone from the Old Red Sandstone, 

 Pebbles, and cretaceous Flints, and the ground is a roundish 

 hill, or tump, about 400 feet above the sea-level, a deep valley 

 intervening between Blackdown and Goose Hill. 



Near the pit, from which it had been removed, I observed a 

 piece of Hornblende Greenstone, 2ft. 3in. long, 9 inches thick, 

 and 15 inches wide. 



At Stretton-on-Foss, is a pit, at an elevation of about 380 feet, 

 containing 2 feet of Gravel and soil, then 8 feet of Quartzose 

 Sand, which rest upon 3 feet of the same Quartzose Sand mixed 

 with coarse N.D. Gravel, but the whole does not cover more 

 than 70 acres, and is very irregular in thickness. 



At Lower Lemington, near the church, is a pit, much 

 resembling Blackdown, only the Gravel is finer and more 

 mixed with soil. A large boulder of very indurated carboni- 

 ferous limestone, 20 in. long, 12 in. thick, and 15 in. broad, was 

 just taken out when I was there. Height about 360 feet. 



From Ebrington to Brailes, and including the district as far as 

 Moreton-in-the-Marsh, the country is a series of small hills rising 

 to about 400 feet above sea-level, intersected by numerous 

 valleys. The character of the drift is extremely variable. At 

 Paxford, I saw exposed in a field which was being drained, 

 fully 4 feet of Boulder Clay, containing some Flints, Quartzose 

 Pebbles, Lias, Greenstone, Millstone Grit, and Syenite from 

 Charnwood ; whilst on the other side of the road with hardly 

 any difference in level, being only slightly lower, is at least 

 12 feet of sub-angular Oolite Gravel, capped with one foot of 

 surface soil, in which are N.D. Pebbles. 



In this district, there is a great quantity of Flints, some very 

 small, having a chipped appearance, and occurring irregularly 

 in places ; froci their abundance they form quite a coating on 

 the surface of the land ; and a stranger ignorant of the locality 

 would be under the impression that he was in a cretaceous 

 country. The large Flints are deeper in the soil, and when 

 dug up, shew a white chalky covering. 



