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but the ground to the south-east of that line, in- 

 cluding the upper portion of Brook-street and 

 Grpenheys, is brick clay (No. 3). The follow- 

 ing section was met with in Oxford-road, near 

 the Town Hall : — 



Yds. Ft. 



Gravel aud sand (No. I) about 4 



Till and No. 4 gravel, about 8 



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HULME. 



The whole of this township may be considered 

 as being upon gravel No. 1, resting, in some 

 places, on Till, and at other places on upper new 

 red sandstone, affording fine dry land for building 

 purposes. The greatest thickness of the Drift 

 in this township, which has come to my know- 

 ledge, is near the New Church in Stretford New 

 Road, where the gravel and Till reached sixteen 

 yards. The loamy clay on the surface is about 

 three to four feet thick, the sand and gravel 

 under it varies from twelve to fifteen feet, and 

 the Till and No. 4 from twenty to thirty feet. 

 In the valley of the Medlock is an inter- 

 esting deposit of later origin than any other 

 alluded to in this paper, one evidently formed 



