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Deicription of Strata. 



28. Yellow sands passing successively 

 into sands of white, yellow and ochreous 

 tints, with six inches of large pebbles at top. 



27. Tough light bluish clay, capped by a 

 thin seam of dark red clay, and passing 

 downward into a brown sandy clay with 

 five layers of lignite, varying in thickness 

 from six inches to two feet. 



26. Bright-coloured sands successively 

 ochreous, striped white and red, white, 

 ochreous, brown (with pebbles), yellow, 

 white, red, striped white and yellow. 



25. Whitish sands succeeded by yellow 

 and yellow and red-striped and brilliant red 

 sands. Three straggling layers of small 

 flint pebbles. 



24. Dark grey clay with a seam of 

 lignite one foot thick. Laminated dark clay 

 with whitish sand and thin lignites. Very 

 light grey lumpy clay with peculiar vege- 

 table remains, and an underlying bed of 

 fifteen inches of finely laminated light grey 

 sandstone. Laminated dark grey clay with 

 lignite and a layer of septaria. 



23. Brown, yellow, white, yellow and 

 brown striped sands. Red and yellow sands. 



22. White sands striped with brown. 



21. Pale and bright yellow sands. 



20. Black and brown clay laminated 

 with brownish and whitish sand. The 

 weathered upper edges light-coloured for 

 many yards. Traces of lignite. 



19. Light grey clay. 



18. Whitish light yellow, reddish bright 

 yellow, ochreous and yellow striped sands. 



17. White foliated clay, very fine and 

 compact, and spotted and striped with red, 



16. Yellow sand with a little red. Three 

 inches of iron-sandstone underneath. 



15. Light green sand. 



14. Ochreous sand. 



13. Black clay, passing into whitish sands 

 with seams of lignite, and this again into 

 black clay. Grey sand with partings of 

 grey clay and seams of lignite. 



12. Finely laminated tough brown and 

 grey clay. 



11. Thick-bedded black sand. Passes 

 into (10). 



10. Ash-coloured sand with greenish- 

 coloured stripes. Passes into (9). 



9. Finely laminated grey sand and clay ; 

 the clay preponderating. 



8. Grey sand and clay resembling (9), 

 but more sandy. 



7. Bright yellow sand with underlying 

 iron-sandstone. 





Feet. 

 626 



42 



71 



77 



70 



59 

 17 

 16 

 17 

 29 

 14 

 24 

 1376| 



Association'of genera and 



characteristic species in the 



chief fossiliferous beds. 



28-7. 

 No organic remains of 

 animals yet discovered. 



