iSS UY/T:t}Mtai!in'd^W:AMclin(tl Line of 



Ringmcr north of Lewes, at Ripe it is syncliiial_, and at SehnstdS 

 and Bcnvick Common anticlinal. Here it appears to be lost } 

 for a broad saddle of Weald clay succeeds, and its anticlinal and 

 synclinal arrangement produces several miles of expansion from 

 Swinesliill Gate through Hailsham and Hellingly, where the fii-st 

 Wealden sand crops out. ^ . ; . ;. ; 



The country becomes now so flat;'thit?l[ fti^e'^ntt^een able 

 to determine the exact part of the coast at which the anticlinal 

 line runs out. But the sharp dip of the chalk by the roadside, 

 and in the chalk-pit at AVillingdon, shows that it is not far off; 

 and as still more satisfactory evidence, a fine swell of the upper 

 gi'ecnsand is seen rising out of its synclinal line from under the 

 Bourne Level in the cliff at Sea Houses, near East Bourne, and 

 waving away beautifully southward to sink under the chalk 

 towards Beachey Head*. ; .; ; . i^j ; ! ,.;; 



We must now return to tlie west of Susse?^!' •* Frbiti Cfreenhurst 

 westward, still following the course of the Downs, the disruption 

 throws back in succession the three members of the lower green - 

 sand, forming an irregular but well-defined countiy of each, with 

 its anticlinal and synclinal lines. A trough of gait is exhibited 

 in the latter of these at Wiggonholt, Hardham, Watersfield and 

 Tripp Hillf. The line then passes through a saddle of gait 

 between the last-mentioned place and the Bury New Woods, 

 and then, bearing north-westerly, and bringing the Chalk Downs 

 with it, it points towards Midhurst. From Duncton and La- 

 vington Commons it enters by Selham into the course of the 

 Bother (the western branch of the Avon), leaves the gait behind 

 it, and by its synclinal line projects the argillaceous beds of the 

 lower greensand northward as far as Lodswoi-th and the south 

 paii; of Cowdry Park J. Then taking its course north of Mid- 

 hurst, still following the backward course of the Bother, it 

 emerges from it and appears in great force at Woolbeding. In 

 a hollow way a few hundred yards north of Woolbeding Farm, a 

 good section is to be seen of its central and sharpest upshot ; 

 but to gain a just notion of its importance here, it is necessary 

 to traverse the hollow ways round about this locality, and observe 

 the escarpments and tilted sections of the sandhills at Midhurst 

 and Trotton. At this most northerly part of its course, at WooU 

 beding, it enters the lowest or Fullei-'s earth beds of the lowei* 



* I am not sure that this wave of the upper greensand has not been 

 noticed somewhere by Dr. Fitton, although I do not find it in his " Strata 

 below the Chalk," Geol. Trans, loc. ctt. 



t This trough of gait is five miles long, and from a quarter to half a 

 mile wide. • 



X There is much obscurity in this part of the line, and but for its ^^ttp-i 

 ])earance at Woolbeding it might be supposed to be worn (mti'" >««J o,"^^ 4 



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