The digging was carried through another bed of blue clay, twenty or twenty-two feet in depth, when the men reached a stratum of fine yellow sand, into which they dug three feet and stopped, having found sufficient water.
On passing the west margin of the island, I observed a bed of a species of light-blue clay, which is stated to part with its coloring matter in baking it, becoming white.
The workmen then passed through a stratum of blue clay, of eight or ten feet, when they struck a vein of coarse sand, six or eight inches in thickness, through which the water entered profusely.
After passing ten feet of alluvion, the auger passed through 115 feet of blue clay, with quicksand, then two of beach sand and pebbles, when the limestone rock was struck.
The workmen then passed through a stratum of blue clay of eight or ten feet, when they struck a vein of coarse sand, eight inches in thickness, through which the water entered so fast, as to almost prevent them from going deeper.
Mr. Whittlesey gives an account of a log found forty feet below the surface, in a bed of blue clay, resting [1.
Blue clay in the Pensauken and Pavonia deposits and along the coast.
Water will pass through such clay, and the clay become dry; and after it becomes once dry, water will, I am convinced, readily pass down through such stiff blue clay.
Below this surface sand we find, in many parts, a blue clay of varying depth.
This happened far from both the ancient and modern volcanic district, in a group of strata consisting chiefly of blue clay.
A bed of peat is there seen below the level of the sea, and the trunks of large trees, such as the oak and yew, having their roots still diverging as they grew, and fixed in blue clay.
But in beds of a blue clay, intercalated with the sandstone, we find fossils in abundance, of a character less obscure.
Lower down there occur, alternating with the trap, beds of shale and of blue clay, but they are lost mostly in the talus.
Nobody had ever found a trace of blue clay in Ontario, yet Horace felt certain that the blue-clay beds must exist.
Fred found no trace that afternoon of blue clay, or, indeed, of any clay, but he happened upon something that caused him some apprehension.
According to Horace's theory, the river, or one of its tributary streams, must cut through the diamond-beds of blue clay.
This is not the natural home of diamonds, which are always found native to the peculiar formation known in South Africa as "blue clay.
Twice we found pits of blue clay, such as we had already seen in the swamp of the pterodactyls.
Well, now, in the whole world I've only had to do with one place that was a volcanic vent of blue clay.
I should have thought no more of Lord John's remark were it not that once again that night I heard him mutter to himself: "Blue clay--clay in a volcanic tube!
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