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V.
On the Sand-Pit at High Ongar, Essex, with a Note on
Mr. W. H. Dalton's Paper on the "Blackwater
Valley."1
By the late Searles V. Wood, the Younger, F.G.S.
[Read February 24th, 1883.]
About one furlong distant from the stream of the Roding
River, three furlongs S.S.W. of High Ongar Windmill, two
furlongs N. of Hallsford Bridge, and the like distance S.W.
from the P. of "Paslowhall Wood," engraved on the inch to
Fig. 1.—High Ongar Sand-pit in 1865; the side facing towards the
W.S.W. The darker beds are of brown sandy clay or loam, and the
lighter of fine, close, compact, silicious sand. No false bedding apparent.
On the face of the pit fronting the south, which is not shown (the pit
forming nearly a right-angle), the stratification is about horizontal.
the mile Ordnance Map (Sheet 1), there was, between the
years 1860 and 1870, a sand-pit, showing a fine, close, soft,
greyish-white, stratified sand with some bands of loam in the
lower part, and dipping towards the river at a high angle.
1 [This paper lacks the benefit of Mr. Wood's final revision. While
corresponding with him on the subject, we were startled by the news of
his sudden death on December 14th, 1884. Of Mr. Wood's eminence as
a student of a very difficult branch of Geology it would not become us to
speak; our readers will find a very interesting obituary notice in the