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VI.—On a Bed of Chalk-flints near Spa

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

J. A. Birds
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The fashionable Belgian watering place, Spa, is situated 1000 feet above the sea, in the centre of a circle of hills called the High Moors (Lea Hautes Fauges), a wild and desolate tract covered with peat-bogs and heaths, themselves some 600 to 800 feet above the town. Immediately above Spa, and opposite to it, there are two other distinct hills, of lesser height, the limits of which are definitely marked out by streams or deep valleys, and these, together with the “High Moors” and their rock, constitute the leading geographical features of the immediate neighbourhood.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 3 , Issue 29 , November 1866 , pp. 501 - 503
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1866

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page 501 note 1 The Wayai is a small stream, having its source in the Moors eastward of Spa, which, after flowing by the town, turns sharply to the north and continues its course in a line parallel with the railway to the Yesdre, a tributary of the Meuse.

page 503 note 1 “Abrégé de Geologie,” p. 534.Google Scholar