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that this beach is much more recent than the 25 foot beach 

 which everywhere underlies the head. 



St. Saviour s. 



Pebbles are reported by Mr. A. Collenette as being 

 found iu the clay at various spots near the church, and are 

 considered by him to have been derived from an ancient 

 deposit (possibly tertiary) which must formerly have covered 

 a great part, if not the whole, of the island. There are 

 several outcrops of rock in the same neighbourhood, which 

 appear to have been sea-washed. 



Calais, St. Martin s. 



A bone (probably ox) found in a peaty deposit in the 

 small valley at Calais, had a deposit on its surface of small 

 crystals of vivianite (hydrated phosphate of iron). 



Carteret, CdteL 



Some small iron pipes, suggesting twigs, in which the 

 wood has been replaced by iron, Avere found by Mr. A. J. F. 

 Gibbons in the 25 foot beach north of Houmets hill. 



Lowlands, St. Sampson's. 



In the report for 1912 reference was made to the exca- 

 vations for drains in this and other localities in the neigh- 

 bourhood. A report from the clerk of works of this 

 undertaking has been received from which the following 

 notes are taken. At Lowlands the strata in descending 

 order were : — 



1. — 2 feet of soil of a sandy nature. 

 2. — 1 foot of sand. 



3. — 3 feet of clay of a yellow colour, intermixed with 



some of a bluish tint. This clay when pugged could 



be used for pottery. 



3. — Gravel of a brown colour and rubbly nature. (By 



this is probably meant rearranged disintegrated rock.) 



5. — 20 feet of rock of a greenish tint (diorite) of no use 



for building owing to its disintegrated condition. 

 6. — 20 to 30 feet of rock more solid in texture and darker 

 in colour. 



Nocq Road, St. Sampson's. 



In Nocq Road, the rock (diorite) came to the surface in 

 the part below Rue Roland ; in the part above Rue Roland 

 it was covered by clay (a continuation of No. 3 in the section 



