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WILLIAM SMITH : HIS MAPS AND MEMOIRS 
One wonders what Smith would think if he could see the lists of 
fossils from those beds to-day ! 
Of this Bath list Smith says : — 
" The annexed Table No. 1, is a copy of the first MS. attempt 
at any regular account of my discoveries in the strata, a copy of 
which being shown to me by the late W. Reynolds of Colebrook- 
dale, about twelve years since, and being assured by him and others 
of its multiplication and general distribution, even to the East 
and West Indies, I am induced to publish it in the original form.'^ 
Facing page 10 of this work is an " Explanation of Colours on the 
Map of STRATA, taken in succession from East to West, as the Strata 
occur." This may be taken as the first Table of British Strata ever 
published. The beds are divided into " London Clay, Clay or Brick 
Earth, Sand or Light Loam, Chalk, Green Sand, Purbeck Stone, Iron 
Sand and Carstone, Dark Blue Slate, Cornbrash, Forest Marble Rock, 
Great Oolyte, Under Oolyte, Blue Marl, Blue Lias Limestone, White 
Lias, Red Marl and Gypsum, Magnesian Limestone, Coal Districts.... 
Generally a Sandstone beneath, Derbyshire Limestone, Red and Dun- 
stone, Various, Killas or Slate, Granite, Sienite, and Gneiss." Many 
of these terms are still in use to-day. In addition to the rocks mention- 
tioned, tbeir equivalents are given, for instance, " Purbeck Stone, 
Kentish Rag, and Limestone of the Vale of Pickering." Chalk, we 
notice, is divided into " Upper Pari:, soft, contains Flints," and " Under 
Part, hard, none." 
From the White Lias (which is now used for printing from MS. 
written on stone ") upwards, is a note *' Part on which Lime is rarely 
used as manure " ; while the rocks below are marked " Part on which 
Lime is generally used." In a further column are particulars of the 
economic value of the different beds, thus opposite " Coal districts " 
we find " Grind-stones, Mill-stones, Paving-stone, Iron-stone, and 
Fire-clay from Coal Districts." The " Oolytes " are bracketed with 
" The finest building stone in the island for Gothic and other archi- 
tecture which requires nice workmanship." Opposite Upper Chalk 
occurs " Flints, the best road materials," which may have been correct 
in Smith's days ! 
In the section General Account of Soil and Substrata in the 
respective countries " the description " will generally be given in the 
