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Soils," the latter told Mm of having found a bed of Quartzose 

 Sand between Buckholt Gate and Frocester Hill, in sufficient 

 quantity to be carted away to improve the soil of the beds in the 

 garden at Woodchester Park. 



The height where the Sand was discovered, Mr. Playne 

 estimated at 750 feet. 



I think, therefore, it is evident that there are remains of this 

 drift over a considerable portion of the hills up to 750 feet, and 

 it is clear that it could only have been deposited when the 

 Cotteswolds were submerged. 



Although the Pebbles are very sparsely scattered, and I noted 

 carefully that where there was scarcely any soil they were 

 rarely found, still what are now left can hardly be considered 

 a measure of the quantity of drift which prevailed at the time 

 of their deposition, and it appears to me evident that the flat 

 table-land of the Cotteswolds is mainly attributable to the 

 denuding power of forces that brought the Pebbles there, most 

 of which were swept away at the time, and which planed off 

 the STirface of the ground. 



It is an interesting question, but one extremely difficult to 

 determine, what was the thickness of the formation that capped 

 the Inferior Oolite of the western escarpment of the Oolitic 

 range, and how far the Chalk extended westward, immediately 

 prior to the setting in of the Glacial epoch. 



We must remember that we are contemplating a period when 

 the physical geography of England was far different to what 

 it is now, and there is but little doubt that in forming an 

 opinion of the then condition of the country, we must consider 



II. — Clay first received foom Woodchester, September, 1869. Drier, more 

 Fissured, less sectile, less soapy than No. 1. 



Organic Matter and Water of Combination 5'65 per cent. 



Silica 



Alumina 



Oxide of Iron 



Carbonate of Lime... 

 Carbonate of Magnesia .. 



70-50 



^^•f I 19-11 

 8-73 3 



2-67 



1-11 



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