SECTION OF LIAS QUARRIES NEAR AXMINSTER. 
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Clay. 
Ft. In. 
7. Half-foot bed. Strong blue flagstone, Ji® ^est ^ or 
o 6 
paving.. 
Clay, 
8. Foot stone ... Blue paving and building stone . 0 10 
Clay. 
9. Red-size.White lias, inclining to grey, splitting 
into two or three thin slabs, and 
used for paving and building . 0 6 
Clay. 
10. Under bed... Blue building stone, used for paving, 
and the best bed of all for steps . 0 8 
Clay, varying from one to six feet. 
11. White rock... White lias, rough and rubbly through¬ 
out; —not good for paving or build¬ 
ing, but used largely to make lime, 
which is better than that of the 
other beds for plastering and in¬ 
door work: the thickness of this 
bed is variable ; its average is . . 30 0 
All the above strata are separated by thin beds of clay, varying 
from four inches to a foot, and exceeding the latter thickness in one 
case only, viz. between Nos. 10 and 11: but the presence and relative 
position of each individual stratum of stone is constant; and the 
specific character and uses of each bed are of practical notoriety 
among the masons through the district round Axminster, in which 
there are many and distant quarries, to any one of which the above 
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