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going down to the north below the line, and trending directly 
eastward from it, is lost to sight. It is near this portion, on the 
level of the rails and close upon the Chalk, 60 yards from Cross-Lanes 
bridge and 40 yards or so to the east of it, that the greatest number 
of the Mammalian remains (Elephas, Equus, and Bos) were found. If 
we take the level of the basement-bed of the gravels (Greensand) at 
the King’s Road, which is 60 feet above the river Wey, supposing 
that no alteration of level has taken place since their deposition, 
their base should be found some 9 feet below this and extending to 
the north; and Mr. Wills informs me that 5 feet below the line at 
the three-arch bridge, in digging the foundation, they came on 
the dark ironstone-gravels. The sands continue for another 
200 yards, and at Watford farm, on the south side of the line, 
Fig. 5.—Cross Section at 15 miles 19°5 chains. 
(Scale 60 feet to 1 inch.) 
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Fig. 4.—Cross Section at 15 miles 1 chain, looking eastward, and 
: about 600 yards east of Fig. 3. 
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they end abruptly against a steep bank of the red clay of the 
Woolwich and Reading beds, which cross the line diagonally 
here. Unfortunately the slopes of the cutting had been cut clean 
and spread over with earth before I saw the section here. In 
all this last portion of the cutting, from the London road east- 
ward, the sands are very fine, with very few pebbles and those 
small. One bed becomes rather clayey; it occurs at about 12 feet 
above the line on the south side, near Cross-Lanes bridge, and passes 
under it ; itis now marked by drainage-cuts, filled in with chalk, to 
catch the water which collects above it. 
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