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attention was given to it at the time. The coal in this place was 
18 yards from the surface, and was a ‘standing vein,’ having been 
bent upwards by the great Newtown fault.’ 
Of a pit at the edge of the Newtown coal, ‘ about three hundred 
yards from Lally’s Bridge as you go up the stream,’ Mr. Edge gives 
the following particulars :— 
‘Srction No. 3. 
Feet, 
5. Soil . A , 1 
4, Yellow clay } : ‘ : j } Reassorted Drift 4 
3. Blue clay with] imestone-boulders : .. Boulder Drift. Bi 
9. Sand and gravel : : ; : f : : rom 
1. ie slay e 3 : ; i : f ; | Preglacial Drift 1 3 
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‘In No. 1, large pieces of round timber, about 5 inches in dia- 
meter, seemingly birch or hazel, were embedded; also what seemed 
to me to be hazel-nuts.’ 
The Boulder-drift hereabouts is unmistakeable, containing nu- 
merous polished and well-scratched blocks of Limestone. The 
‘“Book-’ or ‘Leaf-clay’ mentioned in the first section, is clay that 
was deposited in fine laminz. 
From the foregoing sections, it will be seen that at the Newtown 
Colliery there was a drift Preglacial in relation to the overlying 
Boulder-drift; but whether it existed previous to all the Boulder- 
drift in its neighbourhood, it is impossible to say. Unfortunately, 
the men that opened these sections were only interested in the under- 
lying coal, and therefore paid little attention to the drift; and as 
now all the coal at this place is worked out, there is no chance of 
new pits being opened; but that interesting results may yet be 
gleaned in that neighbourhood, seems likely from the following facts 
stated by Mr. Hdge :—‘ About twelve or thirteen years since, a 
branching coral and shells of mollusca, something like the common 
cockle, were found 24 yards deep in the drift close upon the coal 
at the Newtown Colliery; and similar shells were got at the 
edge of the coal in the Geneva Colliery under 6 feet of drift.’ The 
Geneva Colliery lies a little SW. of the Newtown Colliery. 
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I. Pror. Surss ON CEPHALOPODA OF THE GENUS 
ACANTHOTEUTHIS. 
peo: SUESS has prepared for publication a Memoir on the 
fossil Cephalopods belonging to the genus Acanthoteuthis (R. 
Wagner). A fine series of well-preserved specimens of the Acanth. 
bisinuata (Brown), obtained from the schists of Raibl in Carinthia, 
has enabled him to determine the true characters of the genus. 
