LONDON CLAY ON THE SUSSEX COAST'. 23 



altogether ; it must have been a gallant sight to a traveller 

 moving in an opposite direction ! Whips cracking, carmen 

 shouting, and the company laughing, talking, and smoking, 

 and on terms of the most easy familiarity with each other. — 

 On an-iving at Kilkee there was a regular car-race to the best 

 inn, and when that was glutted, to the second-best, and then 

 to the third. 



When I arose the next morning I was located at a fashion- 

 able bathing-place. I found it extremely difficult to make 

 the Irish believe that I was such a fool as to wander over 

 their island in search of plants or insects, or to see the coun- 

 try. At Kilkee the folks were of a very respectable class, 

 and evidently felt nurt at my explanations ; they thought I 

 was "smoking " them, so T pleaded my leg as an excuse for 

 coming to Kilkee, and this seemed perfectly rational ; and 

 when I left the place about thirty-six hours after my arrival, 

 they kindly hoped I had " found the benefit." Up to this 

 period I think I had been asked a hundred times my name, 

 occupation in life, country, exact place of abode, the place I 

 had last come from, the place T was next going to, the object 

 of my journey, what I had in my knapsack, and at whose 

 expense I travelled. 



(To he continued). 



Art. IV. — On the London Clay formation at Bracklesham Bay, 

 Sussex. — By James S. Bowerbank, Esq., F.G.S., &c. 



There are few localities where the London Clay can be ex- 

 amined, of which so little is known, and which at the same 

 time is so worthy of a careful investigation, as that portion 

 presented to our view by the action of the sea at Bracklesham 

 Bay and its neighbourhood, on the coast of Sussex. The 

 deposit here differs so much, both in its mineral character and 

 fossil contents, from the same formation in other parts of Eng- 

 land, and exhibits so close an approximation in both these 

 respects to the corresponding beds in France — those of the 

 Calcaire Grossier — as to render it a matter of surprise that it 

 has not attracted a greater share of the attention of English 

 geologists. 



The low clay cliffs extending from Selsea Bill to the mouth 

 of Chichester Harbour, seldom exceed ten or twelve feet in 

 height, and for by far the greater part of the space interven- 

 ing between these points, do not rise higher than six or seven 

 feet. This section presents the usual characteristic appear- 



