242 SECTION OF LIAS QUARRIES NEAR AXMINSTER. 
The following section, taken from a series of lias quarries on the 
two opposite sides of the valley of the Axe, near Axminster, will show 
the degree of minuteness to which this correspondence extends*: 
1. White lias... Slaty and fissile, is used for flooring Ft - In - 
when split into slabs from two to 
three inches thick.2 0 
Clay. 
2. Burrs. Rough blue building stone ... 0 10 
Clay. 
3. Cockles. Flat and broad blue stone, contain¬ 
ing shells and divided into two 
beds, each three inches thick, with 
a parting of clay; is used for build¬ 
ing.—Total .0 10 
Clay. 
4. Anvils.Blue building stone, forming a bed 
of irregular anvil-shaped blocks . 1 0 
Clay. 
5. Graze Burrs. Good blue building stone ... 0 10 
Clay. 
(3. Tire stone ... White building stone, used also for 
forming the arch-work of lime pits: 
it divides into two beds, each four 
inches thick, with a parting of 
clay.—Total.1 ^ 
* The details of these quarries are particularly well known to me, as they are in the 
immediate neighbourhood of my native place, Axminster: when a child, I often visited 
them, and collected specimens of fossil shells, which first excited my attention to the sub¬ 
ject of geology. 
