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There is mixed up in the pit a considerable quantity of a 

 ferruginous, tenacious, clayey soil, which when dry forms a 

 loam, and although the Gravel rests on Lower Lias, there is 

 no trace in it of that formation ; the Pebbles are very large, 

 not many of Quartz, and the Gravel extends for a considerable 

 distance, becoming, however, much thinner as you approach 

 *'The Four-shire Stone," near which, in a field by the side of the 

 road I found Stigmaria, amygdaloidal Greenstone, Chalcedony, 

 Agate, metamorphosed Slate, and saccharoid Millstone Grit, 

 but not much Quartz. Height 415 feet. 



At Daylesford, about 15 feet below the Ordnance "Bench 

 mark" at the church, there is a pit 12 feet deep, consisting of 

 rather more than half Flints, and the remainder N.D., with 

 no Oolite Gravel, and the same Gravel occurs in considerable 

 quantities at Addlestrop, in Sir John Eeed's Park, and the 

 N.D. extends to Stow-on-the-Wold, diminishing in thickness 

 as the latter place is approached. 



On the way to Oakham Farm above Little Compton, at an 

 elevation of 555 feet N.D. occurs, and also at the junction of 

 the road near the 76th milestone, south of Long Compton, 

 looking towards that village, at an elevation of 730 feet ; and 

 on the high ground leading to Whichford, at a height of 731 

 feet ; at the junction of the road leading to Chapel-house at 

 721 feet ; near the Workhouse at Chipping Norton at 716 feet. 

 These places, and at Stow-on-the-Wold are the highest points 

 at which I have met with N.D. on the Cotteswold range. 



From Chipping Norton, after leaving the road to the railway 

 junction, on the way to Bruern Abbey, about quarter-of-a-mile 

 below Churchhill Heath Farm, is a pit 10 feet deep, containing 

 large W.D. Pebbles, a few Flints, a little White Chalk, one 

 piece, probably Red (Chalk,) some large White Quartz, a little 

 Oohte and Marlstone, the Sand very Quartzose. 



After crossing the railway and passing Bruern Abbey, at a 

 distance of three-quarters of a mile, at a point called Bruern 

 Wood (in the Geological Surveys Sheet, 44) where boulders of 

 MiUstone Grit are said to occur, there is a great quantity of 

 Gravel thickly scattered over the surface of the fields adjoining 



