On the Glacial Deposits of West Cheshire, together with Lists of the Fauna found in the Drift of Cheshire and adjoining Counties

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I n March 1874, I communicated through Mr. D. Mackintosh, F.G.S., a paper on the “Discovery of Foraminifera, &c., in the Boulder-clays of Cheshire” (Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. vol. xxx. p. 181). Since that time I have continued my observations, which I now place before the Society. The extension recently of the Midland Company's line from Mouldsworth to Chester has caused interesting sections of the Drift to be exposed. The accompanying section to this paper exhibits that portion of the line which commences where the road from Hoole to Trafford crosses it, and is continued from that point for two miles and a quarter to a point a little beyond where the road from Trafford to Guilden-Sutton passes under the railway. From the commencement of the cutting at the Newton-road bridge to a spot near the top of Newton Hollows, a distance of half a mile, the Upper Boulder-clay through which it passes contains very few (if any) striated stones, and no shell-fragments, though small rounded gravel is present throughout it. The cutting varies from 5 to 10 feet in depth up this point, consequently only the upper part of the clay is exposed; its entire thickness at the commencement of the section I estimate at 30 feet.The sand may at intervals be observed to crop out from beneath the clay in a dell which runs parallel to the railway-cutting, called Newton Hollows, proving its (the sand's) continuance beneath the clay throughout this part of the section. I am indebted to

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