Notes on the Drift Dejjosits. 407 



Earth 1 foot. 



Bright ferruginous gravel, chiefly subangular flints ... \ 



Yellow and ochreous gravel ... ... ... ... I 90 fpp4. 



Yellow loam, 2 [feet] ... ... ... ... ... i " 



Light -coloured sharp gravel, with mammalian remains ' 



In the upper part of the gravel there are few quartz, etc., pebbles. 

 In the lower part quartz and sandstone (quartzite) pebbles are 

 common. The mammalian remains consist of ox, horse, and stag. 



1853. — To section west of Shepherd's Bush. Brickearth very- 

 much like London Clay, [resting irregularly on] ochreous gravel. 

 The lower part of the brickearth is lighter and full of ' race.' This 

 also is the case at the Addison Road pits, where the brickearth is 

 10 to 12 feet thick, and the gravel not worked on account of water. 



1889. — [Notes section at] Castle Hill, Ealing, pit by side of 

 railway, showing London Clay remanie, with a few flints and flint- 

 pebbles, 2 to 4 feet ; [resting on] ochreous flint gravel, 15 feet. 



[The occurrence of remanie London Clay at Hendon and elsewhere has been noted 

 by Dr. Hicks: Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc, vols, xlvii, p. 575; xlviii, p. 460. 

 See also J. Allen Brown : Proc. Geol. Assoc, vol. vii, p. 173; and Quart. Journ. 

 Geol. Soc, vol. xlii, p. 192.] 



1859. — [Notes the following section at] Victoria Eoad gravel-pits, 

 Clapham Common : — 



Feet. 

 Earth and flints ... ... ... ... ... ... 1 



Brickearth ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 4 



Sand and gravel ... ... ... ... ... ... 9 



London Clay — Brown clay ... ... ... ... ... 1 



Blue clay 



Visited the above with General Emmet [Found] 



a cast of shell in a New Red Sandstone pebble. . ^ . . No bones 

 found here. 



Thence to Wandsworth Common pit, near top of Nightingale Lane. 

 Bones found under gravel on top of clay. Could not make out 

 species ; brown and mineralized. 



No Date. — [Mentions that] great quantities of peat were taken 

 out during the digging of the foundations of the Westminster Palace 

 Hotel in Victoria Street. 



N. D. — [Between Highbury and Barnsbury the railway-cuttings showed gravel 

 and loam resting irregularly on London Clay. In places the London Clay comes to 

 the surface.] 



The gravel consists of brown clay and ochreous sand, with more 

 or fewer white and black Tertiary flint-pebbles ; scarcely a sub- 

 angular flint to be found. No stratification. The pebbles at all 

 angles, some upright. They more resemble the pebbles of the 

 Bagshot Beds. At places where the sand and pebbles are scarce 

 or disappear, the drift passes into what looks merely as remanie 

 London Clay. 



Sept. 29, 1861.— With [Alfred] Tylor to Highbury. Between 

 Balls Pond and Highbury : — 



Black pebble-gravel and a few subangular flints [in pockets] ) g +„ o fgg+ 

 Brown clay ... ... ... . ... ... ... j 



Fine yellow sand, a few small flints 9 to 10 feet. 



