372 SECTIONS BET-WEEN TJPMINSTER AND EOMFORD. 



that the highest terrace was the oldest, but the presumption that it 

 was so became, in the absence of stratigraphical evidence to the 

 contrary, almost a certainty. The terraces themselves were but 

 faintly marked, and their limits were seldom even moderately clear 

 for more than a few yards, but this resulted simply from the softness 

 of the underlying London Clay, and not from aiiy other peculiarity. 



