282 Mr . Barker’s Account , &c. 
fome parts much mixed with chalk ; and are broken, not whole 
ones. They may have dug the pit fix yards long and two 
deep ; but how far the chalk reaches I do not know. The 
ground about it has plainly been formerly dug, perhaps thirty 
yards fquare, but completely turfed over again, with the fame 
ftrong turf as the reft of the clofe, which is rich pafture land, 
and feeds oxen for Smithfield market, not like the ftiort grafts 
on the chalky downs. 
Riding laft autumn along the turnpike road near Stukeley in 
Huntingdon (hire, I faw a little patch of chalk, a few yards 
long, in a bank which had been dug away by the road fide ; 
fo that though we did not know there was any chalk at all in 
this country, and there certainly is very little, yet here are 
now two places where it has been met with. 
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