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Permian Beds. —1. Red marls. 
2. Soft red breccia, a sandy matrix containing 
angular fragments of coal measure grits, 
shales, and pieces of earthy haematite. 
Coal Measures. — 3. Soft purple grits, red shales, with bands of 
earthy haematite. 
Owing to the amount of drift over this part of the country 
it is impossible to determine the exact northern and south- 
ern limits of this little outlier of permian beds.” 
As it is desirable to collect all the sections showing the 
relation of the permian strata to the underlying coal mea- 
sures, probably one may be excused in bringing this portion 
of Mi-. Hull’s labours before the Society. The section is 
exposed in a small brook course called Ockley Brook, flow- 
ing between the Green Clough and Blackwood farms on the 
estate of Mr. Legh of Lyme, less than a mile to the north- 
east of the High Lane Station of the Manchester and Bux- 
ton Railway. When I lately examined it only about one 
hundred yards of the strata were exposed. They occurred 
in the following descending order : 
Permian Beds. — 1. Red marls. 
2. Red breccia, chiefly composed of coal mea- 
sure sandstones, some of them two inches 
in diameter, for the most part quite 
angular, with small pieces of haematite, in 
a paste of sandy clay, about ten yards in 
thickness. 
Permian ? — 3. Variegated shale and bright red sandstone. 
4. Middle coal measures. 
The dip of the strata was to the N.N.W. The permian beds 
at about an angle of 10°. and the coal measures at about 20°. 
No. 3 appeared more like permian than carboniferous strata, 
from its characters, but there was no decisive evidence to 
class it with certainty. Such a bed of breccia has not, to 
my knowledge, been exposed in Cheshire. In the section 
described by me many years ago at Norbury Mill, a little to 
the south-west, the breccia there (more of a conglomerate 
