This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881 Excerpt: ... lower ground on either side. Fig. 18.--Section from Wilbraham Fen to Bottisham. S. 30 W. N. 30 E. Droveways. Road. Road. Stream. Road. Horizontal Scale, 2 inches to a mile. Vertical scale, 200 feet to an inch. a. Newer Gravel. 6. Gravel of Old River Series. c. Chalk. The dotted lines indicate the former outline of the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881 Excerpt: ... lower ground on either side. Fig. 18.--Section from Wilbraham Fen to Bottisham. S. 30 W. N. 30 E. Droveways. Road. Road. Stream. Road. Horizontal Scale, 2 inches to a mile. Vertical scale, 200 feet to an inch. a. Newer Gravel. 6. Gravel of Old River Series. c. Chalk. The dotted lines indicate the former outline of the ground at the time of the formations of the Gravels A, with the probable edge of the Boulder Clay at x. The large gravel-pit by the roadside just north of Little Wilbraham Church was 6 to 8 feet deep in sandy loam over compact chalky sand with flints. Another hole in the same pit was dug in a hard loamy sand, and in this were found very small specimens of Succinea, and also a minute Pisidium or Cyclas Gravel holes some 6 feet deep in a field about a third of a mile north of Frog End, gave the following section: --Loamy soil. Sandy and loamy marl with shells (Succinea putris var. minor, Helix, small sp., Pupa marginata. Coarse flint-gravel in sandy matrix. Some pits by the side of the road a quarter of a mile N.N.W. are in 8 feet of gravel with sandy beds and patches; at the bottom the workmen had found bones. Gravel has been obtained from several places south of Quy-cum-Stow, and one old pit is still distinctly marked near the Church. Beyond this point the continuity of the ridge is broken by the gap which the Quy water or Wilbraham river has made in escaping from Wilbraham Fen, but the ground westward is capped with loam and gravelly soil. This small patch is cut off by another hollow draining into High Ditch Lane, but westward by Greenhouse Farm gravel and sand again cover the high ground, along which the main road runs. The behaviour of the gravel was clearly seen in a ditch running south from the road near the old turnpike, gravel being sh..
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. Re-bound by library. Octavo, clothbound. Edges untrimmed and frayed. Paper age tone throughout, sometimes quite strongly. Contains folding colour map at the front which is numbered plate 7 and has 6 plates at the rear, one of which is coloured. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 500grams, ISBN:
