20 PROCEEDINGS COTTESWOLD CLUB 1901 
These relics will not continue with us much longer ; and 
they now await only a few more tides and heavy floods, 
when they will be washed away. 
Mr Buckman suggested whether more of the peat bed 
might not be found under the present bank. I am afraid 
this will not be the case; because the bed of the first 
exposure is seen toend in a point. All along the receding 
part of the bank up-streamwards there are no traces of 
roots until we come to that portion which projects 
below Westbury Brook, where there are only a few 
roots. ‘There is no trace of any vegetable remains above . 
the Red Marl of the bank, which is overlaid immediately 
by 4 feet of alluvium; moreover, the blue layers several 
inches thick lying above and below the Forest Bed, shewn 
in Plate I., fig. 1, are elsewhere reduced to a mere streak. 
