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On the Sand-Pit at High Ongar, Essex, with a Note on 
Mr. W. H. Dalton’s Paper on the “ Blackwater 
Valley .” 1 
By the late Searles Y. Wood, the Younger, F.G.S. 
[Read February 24tli, 1883.] 
About one furlong distant from the stream of the Boding 
Biver, three furlongs S.S.W. of High Ongar Windmill, two 
furlongs N. of Hallsford Bridge, and the like distance S.W. 
from the P. of “ Paslowhall Wood,” engraved on the inch to 
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Fig. 1. — High Ongar Sand-pit in 1865; the side facing towards the 
W.S.W. The darker beds are of brown sandy clay or loam, and the 
lighter of fine, close, compact, silicious sand. No false bedding apparent. 
On the face of the pit fronting the south, which is not shown (the pit 
forming nearly a right-angle), the stratification is about horizontal. 
the mile Ordnance Map (Sheet 1), there was, between the 
years 1860 and 1870, a sand-pit, showing a fine, close, soft, 
greyish-white, stratified sand with some bands of loam in the 
lower part, and dipping towards the river at a high angle. 
1 [This paper lacks the benefit of Mr. Wood’s final revision. While 
corresponding with him on the subject, we were startled by the news of 
his sudden death on December 14th, 1884. Of Mr. Wood’s eminence as 
a student of a very difficult branch of Geology it would not become us to 
speak; our readers will find a very interesting obituary notice in the 
