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considerable size were scattered over the surface, and are 
probably the remnants of a former extension of the till over 
the places where such boulders are now found. No beds of 
gravel or sand were seen in the vicinity, but over the hill, to 
the east the Bugsworth, beds are found in the valley of the 
Goyt. 
Bull Strang Section (No. 3). 
About six miles to the south of Macclesfield, on the road 
to Swithamley, lies Clulow Cross, near which are some 
singular stones known by the name of the Bull Strang. 
On the north side of this place is a gravel hole, having a 
face exposed of about 30 feet of beds of well rounded gravel, 
composed of granites, greenstones, porphyries, silurians, 
mountain limestones, coal measure rocks, and a few chalk 
flints, parted by beds of brown sand. In all the beds 
numerous fragments of shells are found, which Mr. 
Sainter cannot distinguish from those found by him in the 
Macclesfield Cemetery beds, including the Cytherea chione 
and Cardium rusticum, and amounting to 53, as enumerated 
in Mr. Darbishire’s catalogue, besides 10 or 12 more species 
which Mr. Sainter considers to be new. The elevation of 
the locality is probably between 1,300 and 1,400 feet above 
the level of the sea, and the area occupied by this sand and 
gravel extends over several acres, and could be traced from 
a little above the Macclesfield Road to the gravel pit ; but 
it is much greater in thickness, so far as it is exposed, for it 
cannot at present be seen resting upon any other deposit, on 
the north end of the hill, where the face of 30 feet is 
seen. 
Mr. Sainter was so kind as to point out the section to me, 
and to him we owe its discovery. This section, which is 
most probably at an elevation equal to that on Moel Tryfaen, 
affords, according to that gentleman, many of the shells 
found at Macclesfield some 900 feet lower. 
Higher up the hill than the gravel pit are seen some large 
