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We will now proceed to examine the second Boulder-clay, . 
and I have to thank the Rev. Dr. Swrrue for calling my-atten- 
tion to a cutting on the Cheltenham and Banbury Railway, close 
to the Great Western conduit at Hatherley Road, Cheltenham, 
where, as the following section shews, the clays of the upper 
beds of the Lower Lias are waved, and resting upon them is a 
seam of small gravel, from two to twelve inches thick, contain- 
ing Quartz pebbles, with Oolite and Marlstone Gravel, and 
capped with a Boulder-clay derived from the Jamesoni beds. 
(Sec Section.) In making a well at Dante Villa, Howard Street, 
Gloucester, Mr. Emprey, of the School of Science supplied me 
with the following section :— 
ft. in. 
Alluvium - eae eee: 
Yellowish Clays ave meee ime eae roe oy ee 
Blue Clay # io Stoke teh ee 
Gravel ... Nop te cae 
During the time the Dees was Pee drained I had many 
opportunities of seeing the relative position of the eravel and 
clay, also in many parts of the district round Gloucester, 
and always found the gravel lying on an uneven planed-off 
surface of Lias. Very frequently the gravel itself is in waved 
lines, and I remember on one occasion taking our President to 
gee a section when the foundations were being got out for the 
Whitfield Memorial Church at Gloucester. 
At Brookthorpe, in sinking a well, I found under the vegetable 
soil : 
A yellowish Clay, (Benider- claves so much worked =P as to ) ft. in. 
form an excellent puddle 49 Oe ices 
Oolite and Marlstone Gravel... Se 
Then Clay, gradually becoming Baier Tes it rested upon | rey 
a floor of blue hard Marl of the Henleyi-Zone : j 
This Clay, which had evidently not been subjected to the same 
attrition as the upper bed, appeared to have been formed by the 
percolation of water through the gravel. 
Before proceeding to the last subject I wish to give some 
supplementary information on two important sections, Hempstead 
and Limbury, in my former paper, (Cotteswold transactions 
vol. V. page 79,) as they will have an intimate bearing on my 
concluding remarks. 
