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1872.] About 200 yards to the westward of this place, in Chiswick Road, on the other side of the Kensington and Richmond railway, and between it and the Brentford Road, another cutting for the foundation of a house showed the stratification represented in Section K (fig. 7),

consisting of:—Surface-soil, 2 feet; brick-earth, 2 ft. 9 in. to 3 feet; seams of clay and sand, 1 foot; gravel, 4$1⁄2$ feet; and 4$1⁄2$ feet of sand with rounded and angular pebbles; and the London Clay at 15 feet; close to which, in the sand, at about a foot from the bottom, animal- remains were also found, as in Brown's Orchard. This was, I believe, some little distance to the eastward of the spot examined by Professor Morris, and described by him in the 'Journal of the Geological Society,' vol vi. Reference to the contours in the map will show that this ground is on a slight rise in the mid terrace, forming the watershed between the Brent and the Acton brook, tributaries of the Thames. Throughout this district, over probably more than half a square mile in extent, wherever the London Clay is reached, animal-remains in great abundance are found above it, and always, I believe, in close proximity to the clay. Careful search was made here, as in