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to their work. It appeared that the boy had long wished to look 

 down ouo of these places, but hid been warned bj his father not to 

 go near them ; he, however, teased nntil permission being granted 

 he ran to the hole, and looking down called to his father that there 

 was someone at tlie bottom, who seems at first not to have believed 

 it. The poor girl on being recovered from her lost situation, stated 

 that she conld liear tlie carts rumbling in the neighbourhood, and 

 even the voices of people after her own had grown too weak to 

 make herself heard ; she also heard the bells ringing on the occa- 

 sion cf tlie rejoicing on tlie acquittal of Queen Caroline, as well as 

 the people shouting. As she was a servant girl, and left her place 

 without her friends' knowledge, and the people with whom she liad 

 lived supposed she had returned to her home, no enquiries were 

 made about her. Her death has been recently recorded in the 

 local papers, so that she must have survived the accident for many 

 years. 



Ti-avelling north and north-west from Canterbury we encounter 

 i}\o sands and clays of tlm Tertiary period, filling up depressions 

 partly of subsidence and partly of d(>nudation, but rising in hills of 

 considerable elevation as at Dunkirk and the Blean. Detached 

 portions of llie tertiary occur westward, as at Shottenden, and from 

 J3ougliton under-Blcan to Faversham, Chatham, and Upnor, until 

 on reacliing a line running north-east througli Bromley and Erith 

 we again encounter them, when tlicy constitute a continuous 

 formation beyond the borders of Kent, extending to about twenty 

 miles west of heading. The unbroken tertiary beds in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Canterbury may be considered to be bounded on the 

 south by the London, Chatham, and Dover Bailway from Selling 

 station to Bekcsbonrne, then in a line running north-east through 

 Littlebourne and Wingham, tending south-east by Staple, north of 

 Eastry, to about half-a-mile cast of Worth. On the east by a line 

 drawn across the low country, separating the Isle of Thanet from 

 the mainland and pa!sing througli Sandwich and Eichborough 

 Castle to Ked Cliffs' point in Pcgwell Bay. The Tertiaries being 

 concealed beneath the alluvium of the marshes only show them- 

 selves on the southern boundary of the Isle of Thanet, about three 

 miles along the South Eastern liailway near the Minster station, 

 with a few isolated beds, as at St. Peter's brickyard, on the Lon- 

 don, Chatham, and Dover Eailway ; Newton, near the St. Law- 

 rence station on the >Sonth Eastern Eailway, and at Spratling 

 Street, half a mile north-west from the St. Lawrence station. The 

 main body may therefore be considered to be bounded in this di- 

 reciion by l^icliborouuh, Stourmonth, Grove Ferry, and lleculver 

 church. The northern boundary is formed by the sea coast to AYhit- 

 stable, and the western by a line running southward from the latter 

 place through (iraveney, Hernhill, Boughton, and Selling. The 

 Isle of Sheppey is composed of a mass of London clay, in some places 



