62 Dr Forchhammer on the 



English miles from the town of Kjoge, and twelve miles from 

 the cliff, quarries are opened, which pass through the coral 

 limestone, the Cerithium limestone, and the thin bed of clay t© 

 the chalk. It is even asserted that limestone was found in 

 laying the foundation of the road from Copenhagen to Kjoge, 

 but of what nature is now unknown. 



About ten English miles to the S. W. of Stevensklint lies one 

 of the highest hills in Sealand, upon which the village and 

 church of Taxoe is situated. To the west it sends out a range 

 of hills which continue for several miles ; to the other sides 

 it descends more or less rapidly into a plain. On the summit of 

 this hill, close to the village, many quarries are opened, which 

 supply a considerable exportation to several places of the Bal- 

 tic. It consists of alternating beds of a compact splintery 

 grayish and yellowish- white limestone, and of beds entirely 

 composed of corals, both broken and in their natural situa- 

 tion. In the cavities between the coral branches, shells, prin- 

 cipally of small terebratula and pecten, occur in great perfec- 

 tion, and, as it appears, still in the same place and situation 

 where they formerly lived. The whole mass of limestone 

 makes entirely the impression, both by its external form and 

 its composition, of a large coral rock of a former sea. The two 

 varieties of limestone before- mentioned are, however, not the 

 only ones, although they are the most frequent, and the others 

 only are exceptions. In the upper part some beds occur al- 

 ternating with the common compact variety, which consist of 

 small pieces of broken corals cemented together by a chalk- 

 like marl, a rock resembling very much the coral limestone 

 from Stevens, and other beds, which are not to be distinguish- 

 ed from the chalk that forms the cliffs on the island of Moen. 

 The stratification of this limestone is interesting. In the 

 quarries which lie on the highest part of the hill, the dip is 

 westerly, under great angles, varying from 60° to 70°. On the 

 slope of the hill the dip is easterly, and the angles only from 5° 

 to 15°. No place could be found where the one direction passes 

 into the other, although the quarries which show the different 

 direction and dip of the strata lie close to each other, and con- 

 sist of the same kind of limestone, with the same fossils. 

 The number of fossils which this limestone contains is asto- 



