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The last New Red Sandstone Bed is clay fifteen 
yards. In a boring and sinking at Whitley there was 
no alternation of sand beds. This stratum contains a 
small portion of carbonate of lime. Tiles and bricks are 
made from soil and subsoil. The Goole and Knottingley 
Canal is cut in this stratum, and the most adhesive soil 
of the whole country is found upon it. The water 
found below it rose up twelve yards, so that no 
subterraneous draining by Elkington's plan can be 
adopted. Great quantities of teazles are grown upon 
this stratum, the rent being about 15s. per acre. It 
forms only a small tract of land on the North end of 
the map. I have no analysis of it. 
A Tract of Diluvium commences near Ferrybridge, 
and ranges in an East and West direction, down by 
Pollington to Snaith ; of the origin of which I shall not 
now speak. This range of gravel beds is not so thick as 
that near Doncaster, and lies more regularly. The 
general section is five or seven yards of boulders, five or 
six yards red and brown sand, with layers of broken 
coal, and at the bottom limestone boulders imbedded in 
yellow clay and sand. The two diluvial groups have a 
correspondence in the yellow clay and boulders. A great 
portion of this land is of very superior quality, being 
well adapted to the alternate system of husbandry, 
producing large crops of turnips and artificial grasses^ 
and perhaps some of the best barley land in the West 
Riding is situated upon this red and brown sand No. 2.* 
It is excellent sheep land, superior to any portion of the 
magnesian limestone, being always dry in winter and 
after rain, and therefore not injuring, nor is it injured, 
• This bed of sand is omitted in the small maps and section ; it 
forms the soil of Beale and Birken. 
