228 Rev. W. V. Vernon on a Discovei-y 



From North to South. 

 Ft. 9 Ft. 40 Yds. Ft. 20 



Ft. 

 .3 



6 



Red Marl. 



Ft. 



From East to West. 

 50 Yds. 



Ft. 

 3 

 U 

 4 



15 



17 



a. Sand (a pebble of quartz two inches in diameter). 

 h. Chalk and white flint gravel. 



c. Blue marl, with some pebbles of chalk and flint. 



d. Black mai-1, with very few pebbles of chalk and black flint, 



but abundance of shells, chiefly Planorbis and decayed 

 vegetable remains, including entire seeds. Near the bot- 

 tom a piece of bone. 



e. Many pebbles of chalk and flint in blue marl without shells 



or vegetable remains. 

 Hence the direction of the deep deposit appears to be from 

 east to west. About a quarter of a mile to the east, by the 

 side of the beck, I found another marl-pit, covered with five or 

 six feet of chalk and flint gravel* ; and half a mile further in 

 the same direction there is another, consisting of a stronger 

 blue clay, in which much undecomposed shale may be per- 

 ceived, enveloping in its upper part boulders of the chalk, blue 

 oolite and lias of the neighbouring hills. When we consider 

 the close proximity of these hills, in the nearest range of which 

 (at Cliff") clay is dug from a bed of lias for the same agricul- 

 tural purpose for which the marl-pits are used, we can scarcely 



• It may be proper to state that I obtained from this gravel a portion of 

 a rib which appears to me to be human, though no inference can be drawn 

 from the fact. 



doubt 



