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At Patricroft, at a height of 60 feet the Till is seen, and 
was found 15 feet thick in Messrs. Lancaster’s coal pit, a 
little to the north of the line. 
Then come the cuttings in the Trias at Eccles, which 
extend to Weaste, where the Till soon comes in at Seedley 
Print Works, a little to the north, where, at about 97 feet 
above the sea, Till was found 71 feet in thickness resting 
upon Trias. The Till extends through Cross-lane, past 
Oldfield-road to Ordsall Station, where it is succeeded by 
the Valley Gravel across Salford to the Victoria Station in 
Manchester, and it there again comes in and is found next 
the Workhouse, at a height of about 100 feet, as follows : — 
ft. 
Till, bluish colour 9 
Till, brown 2 
Brown Gravel 2 
Trias 0 
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By the kindness of my friend Mr. Morton, F.G.S., I am 
enabled to give a general idea of the drift on the banks of 
the Mersey, which may be rightly described as a bed of Till, 
about 60 feet in maximum thickness, with a few feet of 
sand above and below it. Taking the cuttings on the rail- 
way as previously given, the higher parts, such as the 
sections through the Trias at Olive Mount and the Trias 
and Coal Measures of Huyton, Whiston, Rainhill, and Sutton, 
although only attaining an elevation of 205 feet above the 
sea, we have seen that there is little drift covering those 
strata. The deep cutting between Parkside and Kenyon 
Junction, attaining an elevation of 112 feet, is the only 
place where the sands are found apparently lying over the 
Till, but they cannot now be there seen so as to ascertain 
whether they overlie or intercalate with it. From jKenyon 
Junction to Ordsall, Till with Valley Gravels, sometimes 
covering it, underlies the whole district, with the exception 
of the Trias near Eccles. 
