IN THE DRITT NEAE FERRYHILL. 



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pieces of red and white sandstone, and fewer boulders of 

 Magnesian Limestone, 25 feet having been cut through with- 

 out reaching the base. 



Two more sections were exhibited in the railway cutting 

 (marked B on the plan), which is 9 yards wide and 190 yards 

 long, and lies 10 yards to the south of the first exposure. 

 On the northern side the drift was found to be of the same 

 nature as that described above, and attained a thickness of 

 16 feet, the base not being seen. The southern section of the 

 cutting showed the same kind of drift except in one place, 

 where for a distance of three yards blackish bands were found 



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Fig. 2. Sketch-map of the district. 



Scale : i^ inches=i mile. The stippled area is Coal-Measures, 

 with superficial deposits of drift. 



in the clay at the bottom of the section overlain by others of 

 a reddish colour, containing fairly large lumps of a red sand- 

 stone. Above these was found clay of a lighter colour, the 

 whole being about four feet thick, very irregularly deposited, 

 surrounded by the ordinary drift and hardly to be dis- 

 tinguished from it. 



Ten yards to the south two other sections are visible in a 

 cutting (marked C on the plan), 60 yards long and 20 yards 

 wide. The one visible on the north side showed, on nearly 

 the same north and south line as the one described above 

 in B, a very similar set of deposits, somewhat more per- 



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