ALLUVIUM TO THE BEDFORD LENEL. 
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SECTION 7. 
At Sutton in Lincoln sliire tlie strata observed in digging a 
well are said to be the following. 
ft. in. 
1. Clay . 16 0 
2. Moor 3 to 4 0 
3. Soft moor mixed with shells and silt . 20 0 
4. Marley clay ..... 1 0 
5. Chalky rock . . .... 1 to 2 0 
6. Clay 93 0 
7. Gravel, and water with a chalybeate taste. 
This is a very unscientific description and one~'that I have 
great difiiculty in explaining, indeed, the gravel beneath 93 fee 
of clay is inexplicable ; the chalk rock with one foot of clay 
above, and some portion of stratum No. 3, are probably nothing 
else than chalk in blue clay, a form of what has been called 
diluvium, and noticed by the late Dr. William Smith, as occur- 
ring in the eastern counties. I have introduced this section 
merely for its alluvial strata, and in their description also, a 
mystery occurs ; who ever heard of " soft moor" 20 feet in thick- 
ness ? I can only unravel it thus ; if we compare this section 
with the one at the Eaubrink-cut (both upon the same level, and 
not very distant), and venture to decide that the strata 4, 5, and 
6 of the latter section represent No. 3 of the former, we shall 
have our two beds of moor as found at other localities in the 
level, with our intermediate bed of clay, and also the shells 
with silt, beneath the lower bed of peat as seen at Eaubrink. 
In reference to the section at Sutton, Dr. De Serra, in Nichols 
son's Philosophical Journal, vol. 3, quarto edition, says, "The 
whole appearance of the rotten vegetables we observed, perfectly 
resembles, according to the remark of Sir Joseph Banks, the 
moor which in Blankeney Fen, and in other parts of the east fen 
in Lincolnshire, is thrown up in the making of banks ; barks like 
those of the birch tree, being there also abundantly found. This 
