140 
deposit. We then reach the Lower Coal Measures of 
Huyton and the Trias to the east of them, on which little 
drift is seen. This part is the highest level on the line, 
reaching to 205 feet. The Upper Coal Measures of Whiston, 
the Trias of Rainhill, and the Upper and Middle Coal 
Measures, and Permian beds of Sutton then succeed, all 
affording slight traces of Till. East of Sutton we come to 
the Township of Parr. There, at a place called Havannah, 
on an elevation of 70 feet, in a bore hole, the following beds 
were met with : — 
ft. in. 
Soil and Clay 2 0 
White Sand 2 6 
Soft Clay 1 0 
Dark Sand 4 6 
Hard Marl 7 0 
Quick Sand 6 6 
Book Leaf Marl (laminated) 22 6 
Gravel, Resting on Blue Metal ... 9 0 
55 0 
In a boring at New Wint, near Newton race course, 
about half a mile to the north of the railway, at a height of 
125 feet, the following deposits were found : — 
ft. in. 
Earth and Clay 5 6 
Red Marl 9 6 
Book Leaf Marl 1 3 
Dark Stony Marl 12 0 
Toad Back Marl (speckled) 1 9 
Quick Sand 1 8 
Toad Back Marl 12 4 
Book Leaf Marl 1 0 
Loam 3 0 
Dark Toad Back Marl 9 0 
Book Leaf Marl 4 0 
Loam 5 0 
