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of these deposits to the present course of the river indicates 
that it has been deflected very little since the seasonal or other 
meltings of the ice-sheets commenced to release morainic 
debris. The transport of the Drift continued throughout 
the long ages during which the outlets of the westerly flowing 
rivers were closed by the ice, and the Severn became the channel 
for floods of considerable volume from ice and snow that 
covered a much larger area than that of its present river system. 
Some of the deposits have been rearranged or removed, and the 
remnants now lie at intervals in terraces up to about 70 feet 
above the present river level. Small patches of Drift occur 
up to elevations of about no feet (145 O.D.), to which they have 
been carried by exceptional floods. Examples of the latter 
occur at about 100 feet above the Severn, at Apperley and at 
The Eades, near Upton-on-Sevem, but are now overgrown. 
A sand-pit near the summit of a low hill on the Hill Farm, 
Pull Court, Bushley, described by Lucy in 1869 ( 115 , p. 82), 
is still open. It is about 1,300 yards to the west of the Severn, 
140 to 150 feet O.D. and no feet above the river. The deposit 
consists mainly of siliceous sand of various degrees of fineness 
with seams (some lenticular) of coarse and fine gravel winch 
are very numerous and, as is usual in these deposits, varied 
in their arrangement as the face of the pit is cut back. The 
pebbles are of the Bunter type, well rounded and of great 
variety, including quartz, quartzites of several kinds, lydian 
stone, sandstone, breccias, and conglomerates. The more 
important divisions may be described as follows : — 
ft. in. 
3 o Sandy red marl with small pebbles and flints. 
8 o Coarse dark red Quartzose sand with seams of small 
pebbles and a few r flints. 
9 o Coarse grey quartzose sand with seams of finer grain, 
small pebbles and flints. Base not exposed. 
I found in the lower bed of coarse sand some fragments 
of marine shells too small and w^atervvom for identification. 
Small sub-angular Malvemian pebbles and slabs of Keuper 
Marl occur in each of the divisions. There are no erratics 
