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5/1 Holm, 79
806
Longitudinal gravel train 2 feet
11 ft L. Long experiences.
5 1/2 ft eroded (10-15 crumy hill)
16 1/2 ft to print SE of turns of
yellowish isolated from house
(20-25 ft hill comes too)
2 ft L. sand.
7D ft typical white naturals exps
Above Robertella alveata
Simplex natures
5 1/2 ft eroded
Above Robertella alveata,
Strong calcate,
Simply retusa
5 1/2 ft experience of Whitewater &
Pikes.
7 ft internal.
White natural, experiences,
good W of pikes
11ft not exposed.
93 60ft trace of clinton exp.
94 22 ft Clinton.
98 5 ft up to S side level.
825 Crumy can pick way thin 7 inches.
835 farm house SE chalk @
Dressed.
95 ft below Clinton's Crossing
Further downstream, is by a cliff with
no gully.
Clinton Railway 2 ft of top
sand in Biglands.
The most sand along river follows west
edge of 1st bottom land.
The middle road follows W margin
of 2nd bottom,
Only traces of this 1st bottom occur on
Middle rivers.
But 2nd and bottom lands form
East margins in Wherne and
are typical shapes of glaciated deposits.
Directly S and also from house at S
only middle road is of ft till
over 9 ft of stratified sand & gravel,
There is more than sand & gravel below.
Probably at least 5 ft same & possibly
more than that.
Southward for this grand part
there is a low kame ridge in askew
travelling southward along the west
edge of the second bottom. The hill
crosses the gravel as far as a wine fence
further north with the gravel shown at its
surface where one ploughed, then the
soil rises 20 ft above 1st bottom.
The canal is cross several pits
and farm opened in it. The
other I demolish SE of a second
wire fence, at and on gravel just
with numerous fields 8-12 ft wide.
The sand & grit is directly W by drained
like hill isolated from channel
down south.
5 of S end of house the grand con-
tinues along 2nd bottom and is
widely not covered by till in