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deposit 'is 568 feet above the level of the sea. It lies on 
the extreme western edge of a deep valley between two 
ranges of hills, those of Staley bounding the western, and 
those of Hadfield the eastern sides, each about 1,500 feet in 
height, and is in a direct line nearly 50 miles from the Irish 
Sea. This gravelly till, although more clayey in character, 
appears to be very similar in other respects to the upper 
bed seen in the sections of Bull Strang, Yale Royal, and 
Bugsworth. 
Concluding Remarks. 
It has not, to my knowledge, been hitherto noticed that 
the high level drift beds (No. 3) in the counties of Chester, 
Derby, and Lancaster, which have all the appearances of 
ancient shingle beaches, and look as if they had never been 
disturbed since they were deposited, so far as yet examined 
contain chalk flints, although such flints are commonly 
found in the gravels of the Isle of Man. 
The gravel of Bull Strang must be between 1,300 and 
1,400 feet above the level of the sea, and consequently about 
the same height as the beds on Moel Tryfaen, which are 
1,350 feet high. It is also clear that the fossil shells found 
there and at Vale Royal at 1,200 feet, are nearly of the 
same description as those discovered by Mr. Sainter in the 
Cemetery beds at Macclesfield, at a level of 500 feet, and 
probably with those at Bugsworth and Arnfield hereinbefore 
described. Mr. Darbisliire, in his second Memoir, previously 
quoted at p. 6, says, “ A very short inspection of the 
(Macclesfield) specimens will satisfy those who see them 
side by side that the Macclesfield series precisely correspond, 
as to their geological and zoological facies, with the Moel 
Tryfaen and Blackpool fossils, and may fairly rank with 
them.” To the localities before named may now probably 
be added those at Bugsworth and Arnfield. 
The following is a section of the drift beds perforated at 
the North Cheshire Brewery, kindly supplied to me by Mr. 
Sainter : — 
