Mr. Cumberland on the Strata near Bristol . 109 
No. Ft. In. 
Separation of two yards of marley soil. 
219. Blue compact conchoidal 13 
220. Ditto 18 
221. Ditto, very compact ....... 2 
222. Bed of grey splintery 3 
223. 0rey compact 1 
224. Ditto 17 
Separation brown soil of five feet. 
225. A bed of blue compact 6 
226. A regular bed of very shaley matter of various colours, yellow, 
blue, and black 16 
227. A bed that is fast proceeding towards a state of rotten-stone, 
most solid in the center and towards the bottom, in no 
part shaley. It should seem to have offered originally 
some impediment to the matter that has saturated the 
other beds, yet we cannot see any organization through 
the whole. What we now call marley beds, were pro- 
bably such beds entirely decomposed ... 4 
228. Loose beds . ........ 4 
229. A thin bed compact, shattery, irregular fracture . . 6 
230. Ditto 2 
231. Ditto, quite compact, blue 4 
232. Ditto, grey, splintery, coarse 1 10 
233. Under is a separation of six inches of yellow marie, that has 
undoubtedly been a bed. 
234. A bed as N°. 232 8 
235. Ditto .......... 6 
236. A bed of blue, fine, compact ...... 2 
Separation, thin broken beds of limestone as above, 
projecting from earthy banks under grass, one of which 
has a schistose fracture ; viz. 
237. A specimen 3 
The whole occupying about 26 paces. 
Then we arrive at a small projecting point rising from 
under these, where is a remarkable vein of bright yellow 
