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Whitteeing. 



A mile south of Whincup's Farm, the road descends a small 

 valley, crosses the White "Water brook upon the Upper Lias, and, 

 after passing for a mile over various beds of the Lincolnshire Lime- 

 stone, traverses the area of the old " Whittering Pendle " quarries. 

 These were very shallow, and, having fallen into disuse, the old 

 familiar pits have long since been levelled down and ploughed over. 

 The " Whittering Pendle," although it has been considered identical 

 with the Collyweston Slate, is very different in its mineral cha- 

 racter, being very hard, crystalline, and sometimes almost cherty in 

 texture. It was excavated in large irregular slabs, varying in 

 thickness from one inch to two inches, and was used, without being 

 squared, for the door-slabs and rough floors of cottages, for back- 

 kitchens, &c. 



The fossils gathered from this bed are generally characteristic of 

 the Lincolnshire Limestone ; but I must particularly notice a 

 specimen taken by myself from the section nearly thirty years ago, 

 and labelled as a Coral during all that time, but which last July 

 was identified by Professor Phillips, F.P.S., as the spadix or fruit 

 of Aroides Stutterdi, Carruth., an Arum-like plant, only previously 

 known, I believe, as occurring in the Stonesfield Slate, and described 

 by Mr. Carruthers in the ' Geological Magazine ' for April, 1867. 



Fossils from the " Whittering Pendle." 

 Pteroperna, sp? 



G-ervillia, sp. ? 

 Hinnites abjectus, Phil. 



velatus, Goldf. sp. 



Lima cardiiformis, Sow. 



impressa, Mor. S{ Lye. 



Pontonis, Lycett. 



Pecten aratus (?), Waagen. 



lens (?), Sow. (or new sp. ?). 



personatus, Goldf. 



Perna quadrata, Phil. 

 rugosa, Goldf. 



Lucina Bellona, d' Orb. 



Wrightii, Oppel. 



Macrodon Hirsonensis, d'Arch. sp. 

 Modiola, sp. ? 



Belemnites Bessinus, d' Orb. 



Aroides Stutterdi, Carruth. (spadix). 



Wansfoed, Wansfoed Tunnel, and Hxtntingdonshiee. 



The Lincolnshire Limestone continues to be the surface rock for 

 two miles and a half south of Whittering, and is crossed in that 

 space by two valleys, which deepen down to the Upper Lias. It 

 may be seen in a large quarry at Thornhaugh, and again in the 

 road-cutting on the hill overlooking Wansford and the valley of the 

 Nene ; which is here the line of demarcation between Northampton- 

 shire and Huntingdonshire. 



The river flows over the Upper Lias (generally covered with 

 alluvium). The famous Haycock Inn and the southern half of the 

 village stand on the Northampton Sand. At a higher level, near 

 Wansford MilL many years ago, a quarry was opened in the Lin- 

 colnshire Limestone, in which, beneath a considerable thickness of 

 marly beds (some blue-hearted), was a zone of very hard crystalline 

 limestone, almost made up of small and comminuted shells : at the 



