| Strata | Thick neƒs |
Springs | Foƒsile Petrefactions, etc., etc. | Descriptive Characters & Situations. |
| 1. Chalk 2 Sand 3 Clay 4 Sand & Stone 5 Clay 6 Forest Marble 7 Freestone 8 Blue Clay 9 Yellow Clay 10 Fuller’s Earth 11 Bastard Ditto and Sundries 12 Freestone 13 Sand 14 Marble Blue 15 Lias Blue 16 Ditto White 17 Marl stone, Indigo and Black Marle 18 Red ground 19 Milstone 20 Pennant Stone 21 Grays 22 Cliff 23 Coal |
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Intermitting on the Downs Between the Black Dog and Berkley. Hinton, Norton, Woolverton, Bradford Leigh. Above Bath Round Bath |
Echinites, Pyrites, Mytilites, Dentalia,
Funnel-shaped Corals, & Madrepores, Nautilites, Strombites, Cochliae, Ostreae, Serpulae A maƒs of Anomiae and High-waved Cockles with calcareous Cement Scarcely any foƒsiles besides the Coral Striated Cardia, Mytilites, Anomiae, Pundils, and Duck-muscles. Top-covering Anomiae with calcareous Cement Strombites, Ammonites, Nautilites, Cochliae Hippocephaloides, fibrous Shell resembling Amianth, Cardia, prickly Cockle Mytilites, lower Stratum of Coral, Large Scollop, Nidus of the Muscle with its Cables Ammonites, Belemnites Pectinites, Belemnites, Gryphites, High-waved Cockles. Same as the Marl with Nautilites, Ammonites, Dentalia, and fragments of the Enchrinni. Pyrites and Ochre No foƒsil known Impreƒsions of unknown plants resembling Equisetum Impreƒsions of ferns, olive, Stellate plants Threnaxparviflora or dwarf fan Palm of Jamaica |
Strata of Silex imbedded The fertile vales intersecting Salisbury Plain & the Downs. Imbedded is a thin Stratum of calcareous Grit. The Stones flat, smooth and rounded at the Edges. The Cover of the upper Bed of Freestone or Oolyte. Oolyte resting on a thin bed of Coral. - Prior Park, Southstoke, Twinny, Vinsley, Farley Castle, Westwood, Berfield, Conkwell, Monkton Farley Coldhorn, Marshfield, Coldashton. Visible at a distance by the Slips on the declivities of the Hillls round Bath. Lincombe, Devonshire Buildings, Englishcombe,.Englishbatch, Wilmerton, Dunkerton, Coomhay, Monkton Combe, Willow, Mitford, Stoke Freshford, Cloverton, Bathford, Batheaston, and Hampton, Charlcombe, Swainswick, Tadwick, Langridge. Sand Burs. Ocre Balls. - Mineral Springs at Lincombe, Middle Hill, Cheltenham. The fertile Marl Lands of Somersetshire, Twerton, Newton, Preston, Clutton, Stanton Prior, Timsbury, Paulton Marksbury, Farmborough, Corston, Hunstreet, Burnet, Keynsham, Whitchurch, Salford, Kelston, Weston, Pucklechurch, Queencharlton, Norton-malreward Knowles, Charlton, Kilmersdon, Babington. A rich Manure Pits of Ruddle. Beneath this bed no foƒsil, shells, or animal remains as found; above it no vegetable impressions. The waters of this Stratum petrify in the trunks in which they are conveyed, so as to fill them. in about fifteen years, with red Watricle, which takes a fine polish. - Highlittleton. Fragments of Coal & Iron Nodules. - Hanham, Brislington, Mangotsfield, Downend, Winterbrown, Forest of Dean, Pensford Publow, Chelwood, Cumptondando, Hallowtrow Near Stratford on Avon, Stonebench on the Stourbridge or Fire-clay. |
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