Mr. Cumberland on 
the Strata near 
Bristol . 
105 
No. 
Ft. 
In. 
155. 
Limestone bed solid 
. 
. 
1 
Separation, rubble and broken bed 
. 
5 
156. 
Limestone split in three parts 
. 
. 
2 
Vein of grey marie, and rolls of grey limestone, inserted 
loosely 
• • 
5 
1ST. 
Limestone 
6 
Separation red earth 
. 
3 
158. 
Limestone 
3 
Separation red earth 
. 
. 
1 
159. 
Limestone 
. 
. 
2 
Separation red earth 
.... 
• 
4 
140 
Limestone . . . 
. .. 
1 
Separation shaley 
. . . . 
• •- 
6 
141. 
Limestone 
3 
6 
142. At this place commences a bold rising- head very rugged, and 
almost hanging over the towing-path, which rises over a 
mass of limestone that enters the bed of the river forming 
a precipice ; this and the three last beds belong to an ir- 
regular winding bed of grey limestone beyond, whose 
whole surface is deeply tinged with a ferruginous coating; 
measuring by computation, for I could not get safely at it 35 
14 3. Under which is a regular bed of ..... 15 
144. And another of 18 
145. Then another of ........ 6 
146. Another with encrinital remains, shells and plates of echini 8 
147. One of . 3 
148. One of 5 
149. One of 15 
All these beds are coated with the dark ferruginous 
crust — all grej r limestone, have been formerly worked — 
and are separated only by cracks without any intervening 
body, and end at the boundary stone No. 9, C. B. where 
they form a winding head of some magnitude, that ter- 
minates as it were this fourth series by a valley as usual 
forming another serrated edge of this chain ; and these 
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