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separate colour. This tract is where clayey matter deposited 

 by the Chelt occurs. Below the Alluvium, in most places, 

 is gravel. Thus at (64) in Charlton Park, gravel (8 feet thick) 

 is seen resting on yellow alluvial clay. 



Peaty Tracts. — Peaty tracts occur at three places in 

 the area under consideration, at — 



1. In Charlton Park. 



2. Moorend, Charlton Kings ; and 



3. Moorend, Leckhampton. 



The extent of the second patch is shown by the extremely 

 black soil, which is said to overhe gravel, and this in turn clay. 



The third patch occurs in a district also known as " Moor- 

 end." The greater portion of this tract is covered with fruit- 

 trees and market gardens. The ground is black in some places, 

 brown in others. The peaty matter is very fibrous and must 

 be several feet thick. The portion of this tract in the pasture- 

 field has not yet been drained and is a veritable bog. 



Mammalian Remains. — Remains of mammoth' and a 

 deer horn have been found in the Superficial Deposit exposed 

 in the railway-cutting between Charlton-Kings and Leck- 

 hampton Stations, at (54)^ 



1 Some of these, presented by Mr S. S. Buckman, are now in the Cheltenham Town Museum. 



2 Proc. Cotteswold Nat. F.C., vol. xvii. pt. 3 ('912)1 p. 310. 



