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sionally thin seams of clay — grey, blue, or red. A well near 

 Ewart Park, 24 ft. deep, was mostly in sand, and close to 

 the Hall pipes were driven down to a depth of 90 ft., and 

 no rock was reached, but probably the lower part of this 

 was in clay, as the clay has been dug at Ewart Brick and 

 Tile Works, where it is seen to be capped by 6 or 7 ft. of 

 sand. Mr Milne Home, in a paper in the Royal Society 

 of Edinburgh's Transactions, vol. xxvii., p. 529, gives some 

 interesting particulars about borings here. He mentions 

 that on the Ewart Estate, on Low Haugh land, opposite to 

 Humbledon Buildings, where the clay is at the surface. Sir 

 Horace St. Paul bored down 70 ft. and did not go through 

 it. He penetrated a few thin seams of gravel. At another 

 place a boring for water went through 25 ft. of dry gravel 

 and sand, and then 20 ft. of gravel and sand, with much 

 water. Then a thick bed of clay was reached, which was 

 bored into to a depth of 100 ft., when the rods broke. There 

 was nothing in this clay but a few thin seams of gravel. 

 This boring must have been down nearly to the sea-level. 

 At one place sandstone-rock was reached under 50 ft. of 

 sandy clay." 



The objects of interest inside the house, which were shown to 

 the company after the hospitality of luncheou, were many and 

 varied. The table at which they sat had been the property of 

 King William IV., when Lord High Admiral, and the centre 

 piece thereon of lovely French china, had been a gift from 

 Napoleon to Josephine. 



Several portraits of Mrs Butler's family (the St. Pauls) were 

 inspected, particularly four, at different stages of life, of Count 

 St. Paul, who died in 1812. He was Secretary of the British 

 Embassy in Paris, and later held the rank of Minister Plenipo- 

 tentiary there — from the year 1772 to 1776. He was then 

 appointed Envoy Extraordinary to the Court of Sweden, but 

 did not eventually take up the appointment. He it was who 

 brought over from France the tapestry, the Louis Seize chairs 

 and carvings, which add to the beauty of the house furnishings. 

 Two other portraits of historical character were those of Lord 

 Dudley and Ward, Mrs Butler's great-grandfather, the same 

 who is the central figure in the "Death of Lord Chatham" 



