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they were either protected by the form of the gromid, or allowed 

 to accumulate in consequence of the velocity of the stream 

 being reduced by obstructions in the Channel^ or by its widening. 

 The small fragments of which they are composed, the absence of 

 large stones ia them, and the partially rolled condition in which 

 they are sometimes found, is consistent with the suggestion of 

 their deposition by running water. 



In the Painswick valley there are several of these deposits. 

 The one on Painswick Hill has long attracted the attention of 

 Geologists, and from its position at the base of the Freestone 

 beds, there is not much difficulty in accounting for its origin ; 

 but a small deposit at the lower end of the valley, near Stratford 

 House, is perhaps more suggestive on account of its position. 



Section 2, — Showing Deposit of Angular Gravel in Painswick Valley, near Stroud. 



(Section 2.) It is about 10 feet in thickness, and rests on the 

 Upper Lias; the ridge above has been greatly denuded; the 

 whole of the Inferior Oolite, and the Sands nearly down to the 

 Upper Lias having been removed. It is scarcely possible that 

 this deposit of Gravel could have taken place prior to the 

 denudation of the higher ground, as the same agency by 

 which this was effected, would at the same time have prevented 

 the deposition of the Gravel ; neither could it have taken place 

 on a slope, as in that case it must have been derived from the 

 beds above, and the same moving force which carried it down 

 over the Sands and Upper Lias, would have deposited it at the 

 bottom of the slope. I would, therefore, suggest that the deposit 

 was formed by the stream which ran down the valley, the bed of 

 which was, at that time, as high as the deposit now lies. 



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