WILLIAM SMITH : HIS MAPS AND MEMOIRS 
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common Level of the Fens shows some of the Sand of Swindon and 
Shotover Hill, and beneath in the western rise of the Strata the Oaktree 
Clay with Flat Oyster Shells." 
" The Golt Brickearth at the edge of the Fens between this 
Section and Cambridge contains in its upper part the same Fossils 
as in other more elevated situations." 
" Ickworth on the Summit of the heavy Lands about three Miles 
South of the Section has an extensive vieiv of the surrounding Country. 
The vast district of Bloiving Sands which extend into Norfolk, appears 
to have been drifted from the Stratum of Sand over the Chalk." 
" Woodland Clay Soil with retentive alluvial Subsoil like high 
Suffolk and therewith connected." 
" The Chalk which is unveiled in the Ipswich River from 
Stowmarket to Clay don is but narrow It gives name to the village 
of Creting." 
" Alluvial matter on the Heights bettveen the respective V allies 
has obscured the outcrop of the Crag which is very distinctly traced to 
Playford situate on one of the branches of the Woodbridge River. 
At Ipswich, Sand, Crag, Brickearth, &c., occur in regular order." 
" Very loose or Blowing Sands common to the Surface where 
Crag most abounds, much of the sand appears to be alluvial." 
Below the section appears the imprint : — " London : published 
BY John Gary, No. 181, Strand, May 1st, 1819." 
These are reproduced on Plate XIV., see figs. 2 and 3. 
Neither the sections just described nor any of the following hear 
Smith's name nor, directly, any of his advertisements. 
The next (No. 4), measures 36 J inches by 11 inches. It is a 
"SECTION OF THE STRATA THROUGH HAMPSHIRE AND 
WILTSHIRE TO BATH. ON THE ROAD FROM BATH TO SALIS- 
BURY." It begins on the north-west near Bath, and cuts through 
Warminster and Salisbury to Southampton. Beginning at the north- 
west the headings are: " STONEBRASH HILLS" Cotswolds 
northward"); "CHALK HILLS" ("The Edge of Salisbury 
Plain ") ; " PLAINS " (" The New Forest ") and " Southampton 
Water." 
